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 Marshall Islands and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Sheep,
The Gories,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Saints,
Black Flag,
Matthew Bourne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Easy Going,
Von Mondo,
DJ Sneak,
Technova,
Erasure,
Babytalk,
Buzzcocks,
Warren Ellis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Animal Collective,
Jacob Miller,
The Young Rascals,
The Mojo Men,
Crispian St. Peters,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Magma,
Loose Ends,
U.S. Maple,
Motorama,
The Fire Engines,
Crooked Eye,
Au Pairs,
Panda Bear,
Bobby Sherman,
the Swans,
Boz Scaggs,
Sight & Sound,
Neil Young,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Barracudas,
Rites of Spring,
Livin' Joy,
Kayak,
The Move,
The Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Donald Byrd,
Eric B and Rakim,
Unrelated Segments,
Yaz,
T.S.O.L.,
Fela Kuti,
Camouflage,
Letta Mbulu,
Sparks,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Neon Judgement,
Japan,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.