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 Burkina and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Robert Wyatt to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Mantronix,
Motorama,
Soul II Soul,
Talk Talk,
Vainqueur,
Radiohead,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Clear Light,
Siglo XX,
The Fall,
Zapp,
Soul Sonic Force,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sound Behaviour,
the Swans,
Monks,
The Cowsills,
the Association,
The Invisible,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Evens,
Von Mondo,
Skriet,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
The Birthday Party,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cal Tjader,
Index,
Rosa Yemen,
PIL,
The Remains,
The New Christs,
Spoonie Gee,
Ultimate Spinach,
Suicide,
Bobby Sherman,
Barry Ungar,
Laurel Aitken,
Cybotron,
Judy Mowatt,
Moebius,
Bill Near,
Kaleidoscope,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kayak,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rotary Connection,
Gong,
The Index,
Leonard Cohen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Letta Mbulu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Star Department,
Roy Ayers,
Banda Bassotti,
The Divine Comedy,
Lalann,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.