Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Namibia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Smog to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Marine Girls,
Radiohead,
Darondo,
Slick Rick,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Fraelich,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Funky Four + One,
Camberwell Now,
Susan Cadogan,
Malaria!,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Names,
Kas Product,
The Searchers,
Lalann,
Section 25,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Knickerbockers,
Agitation Free,
Black Sheep,
Inner City,
10cc,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
R.M.O.,
The Birthday Party,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Red Krayola,
Lou Reed,
Yusef Lateef,
the Soft Cell,
Crash Course in Science,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Stooges,
Heaven 17,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Buckinghams,
Pagans,
Interpol,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Lydon,
Amazonics,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter and Kerry,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Mark Hollis,
Jeff Lynne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
La Düsseldorf,
Nils Olav,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Wake,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Royal Trux,
Bobby Womack,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.