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 Afghanistan and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Tom Boy to the rock 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David Axelrod,
Fluxion,
Aloha Tigers,
The Slits,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Albert Ayler,
Yellowson,
Juan Atkins,
The Seeds,
Theoretical Girls,
Laurel Aitken,
Don Cherry,
Al Stewart,
The Cramps,
The Pretty Things,
Joensuu 1685,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Fire Engines,
Robert Wyatt,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
PIL,
Index,
Kenny Larkin,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fela Kuti,
Junior Murvin,
Warren Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jeff Mills,
June Days,
The Red Krayola,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cure,
Pierre Henry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fugazi,
KRS-One,
Gang Green,
Lyres,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cal Tjader,
Faust,
Sight & Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
Fatback Band,
Tubeway Army,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mission of Burma,
Janne Schatter,
Outsiders,
X-Ray Spex,
Robert Hood,
Icehouse,
FM Einheit,
Shoche,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.