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 Kitts & Nevis and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Cure to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Moebius,
Darondo,
The Count Five,
Swans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bad Manners,
The Electric Prunes,
Audionom,
Funkadelic,
The Music Machine,
Roy Ayers,
Michelle Simonal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultra Naté,
Donald Byrd,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mark Hollis,
Anakelly,
Rosa Yemen,
Ornette Coleman,
Godley & Creme,
Mary Jane Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stiv Bators,
Jandek,
The Zeros,
Toni Rubio,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masters at Work,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rapeman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ken Boothe,
The Walker Brothers,
Bluetip,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Last Poets,
Skaos,
Tears for Fears,
Malaria!,
Marvin Gaye,
Bootsy Collins,
Gabor Szabo,
Pylon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Big Daddy Kane,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marine Girls,
Negative Approach,
Electric Prunes,
Ice-T,
Jacob Miller,
a-ha,
Fugazi,
Television Personalities,
Andrew Hill,
The Mummies,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.