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 Chad and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Fortunes to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Eric Dolphy,
Fat Boys,
Bobby Hutcherson,
China Crisis,
Minny Pops,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Interpol,
Thompson Twins,
Girls At Our Best!,
Shoche,
the Bar-Kays,
Sällskapet,
10cc,
Stereo Dub,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wire,
Jawbox,
Excepter,
Jandek,
Eurythmics,
Scan 7,
Oblivians,
X-Ray Spex,
48th St. Collective,
Johnny Clarke,
Matthew Bourne,
F. McDonald,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Moody Blues,
The Fuzztones,
Marine Girls,
The Searchers,
T. Rex,
Neu!,
Model 500,
Lee Hazlewood,
Agent Orange,
Deepchord,
Flamin' Groovies,
Groovy Waters,
Bad Manners,
Max Romeo,
Warsaw,
Panda Bear,
Audionom,
The Shadows of Knight,
Danielle Patucci,
Absolute Body Control,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minutemen,
Yusef Lateef,
Kas Product,
Jerry's Kids,
Howard Jones,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Busters,
Lungfish,
The Happenings,
Alison Limerick,
Swell Maps,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.