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 Zambia and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Brothers Johnson to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camberwell Now,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Martian,
The Motions,
Flipper,
Groovy Waters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fuzztones,
Gong,
June Days,
Cymande,
Alice Coltrane,
AZ,
The Cramps,
ABBA,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Masters at Work,
DJ Sneak,
Marvin Gaye,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gastr Del Sol,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry's Kids,
Banda Bassotti,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sugar Minott,
Ultravox,
Yellowson,
Eurythmics,
Roger Hodgson,
Deakin,
Danielle Patucci,
Ken Boothe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joy Division,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eli Mardock,
Infiniti,
Absolute Body Control,
World's Most,
Jimmy McGriff,
Byron Stingily,
Visage,
Niagra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Coltrane,
the Human League,
The Fortunes,
Colin Newman,
Slick Rick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lyres,
The Associates,
Q65,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.