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 Iraq and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Matthew Bourne to the grime 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
Eden Ahbez,
the Normal,
D'Angelo,
The Black Dice,
The Dirtbombs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joe Smooth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Sheep,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Golliwogs,
Eve St. Jones,
The United States of America,
Joe Finger,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Brothers Johnson,
Aloha Tigers,
FM Einheit,
The Dave Clark Five,
Al Stewart,
Lindisfarne,
Idris Muhammad,
Amazonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Human League,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cecil Taylor,
The Selecter,
Simply Red,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Japan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kenny Larkin,
Alison Limerick,
The Flesh Eaters,
Vainqueur,
Quantec,
The Victims,
Sonic Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Television Personalities,
Althea and Donna,
Half Japanese,
The Fire Engines,
In Retrospect,
Ten City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Danielle Patucci,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Hill,
David Axelrod,
Arcadia,
Tomorrow,
MDC,
F. McDonald,
Rakim,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.