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 St Lucia and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Unrelated Segments,
Nas,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Golliwogs,
Altered Images,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Average White Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Vladislav Delay,
Panda Bear,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bush Tetras,
Godley & Creme,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Byrd,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Patti Smith,
Y Pants,
Lou Christie,
Schoolly D,
Guru Guru,
Inner City,
The Modern Lovers,
Lucky Dragons,
Ohio Players,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter and Kerry,
Yellowson,
Piero Umiliani,
Arcadia,
Saccharine Trust,
Dennis Brown,
Max Romeo,
Aloha Tigers,
The Toasters,
Make Up,
This Heat,
Metal Thangz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quantec,
Nick Fraelich,
kango's stein massive,
The Mojo Men,
Carl Craig,
John Cale,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hasil Adkins,
Organ,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aaron Thompson,
Pylon,
The Blues Magoos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
Cymande,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.