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 France and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Colin Newman,
Jeff Lynne,
The Monks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Slave,
The Birthday Party,
The Invisible,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Residents,
kango's stein massive,
Procol Harum,
Blake Baxter,
Icehouse,
U.S. Maple,
Quando Quango,
Marmalade,
Simply Red,
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
Cybotron,
Junior Murvin,
Camberwell Now,
The Red Krayola,
Sugar Minott,
The Barracudas,
Sixth Finger,
Harpers Bizarre,
Thee Headcoats,
PIL,
The Angels of Light,
Ossler,
Bootsy Collins,
Lucky Dragons,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roger Hodgson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Andrew Hill,
The Gap Band,
Con Funk Shun,
Surgeon,
Arab on Radar,
Rhythm & Sound,
T. Rex,
Sunsets and Hearts,
June Days,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pagans,
Section 25,
Nas,
Subhumans,
Clear Light,
Cluster,
Magma,
Symarip,
Metal Thangz,
Arcadia,
Soul II Soul,
Wings,
Black Moon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.