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 Saudi Arabia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Adolescents to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Icehouse,
Eurythmics,
Roxy Music,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
A Certain Ratio,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Cale,
Sixth Finger,
MDC,
Scientists,
Erykah Badu,
Sandy B,
Faraquet,
Television,
Rotary Connection,
Magazine,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Main Source,
The Angels of Light,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Funkadelic,
Nas,
Lou Reed,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Wyatt,
The Shadows of Knight,
Donny Hathaway,
Echospace,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Age Steppers,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Cell,
the Human League,
AZ,
kango's stein massive,
Vladislav Delay,
UT,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cymande,
Judy Mowatt,
Bluetip,
ABC,
Neu!,
Erasure,
The Smiths,
The Offenders,
The Monks,
Khruangbin,
Das Ding,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.