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 Chad and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 Erasure to the electroclash 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Popol Vuh,
Toni Rubio,
John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flash Fearless,
The Gories,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Theoretical Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Average White Band,
Icehouse,
Parry Music,
Archie Shepp,
Faust,
Bluetip,
The Trojans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bush Tetras,
Pharoah Sanders,
Minor Threat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young,
Prince Buster,
Talk Talk,
The Cramps,
Basic Channel,
Radiohead,
The Modern Lovers,
La Düsseldorf,
The Skatalites,
Magma,
10cc,
Arab on Radar,
Hasil Adkins,
Joey Negro,
Alton Ellis,
Donny Hathaway,
The Alarm Clocks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ponytail,
The Red Krayola,
Big Daddy Kane,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Erykah Badu,
B.T. Express,
Q65,
New Order,
David Bowie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eurythmics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deepchord,
Main Source,
Thompson Twins,
Eden Ahbez,
Chris & Cosey,
Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.