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 Andorra and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Royal Trux to the techno 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
T. Rex,
X-101,
The Buckinghams,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Rundgren,
Barbara Tucker,
Junior Murvin,
Soft Machine,
The Pop Group,
Joe Finger,
Japan,
Wolf Eyes,
Erykah Badu,
The Gap Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
cv313,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Residents,
Popol Vuh,
The Happenings,
Infiniti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pole,
Ten City,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
CMW,
Country Joe & The Fish,
David McCallum,
Terrestrial Tones,
Can,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Angels of Light,
The Toasters,
Scan 7,
Masters at Work,
Motorama,
Sonny Sharrock,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nick Fraelich,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Loose Ends,
Soul II Soul,
Tubeway Army,
KRS-One,
The Remains,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lakeside,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pet Shop Boys,
Agitation Free,
Schoolly D,
Stereo Dub,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.