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 Austria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Popol Vuh to the techno 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 Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Jeff Lynne,
The Toasters,
Aural Exciters,
Franke,
Roger Hodgson,
Youth Brigade,
Saccharine Trust,
The Residents,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeff Mills,
The Five Americans,
June Days,
Skarface,
Thee Headcoats,
Suicide,
Junior Murvin,
Carl Craig,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Sheep,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Sonics,
New Age Steppers,
Japan,
Howard Jones,
The Kinks,
Audionom,
Circle Jerks,
Radio Birdman,
K-Klass,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echospace,
The Raincoats,
F. McDonald,
Rapeman,
Grey Daturas,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Womack,
Donald Byrd,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Grass Roots,
The Motions,
Donny Hathaway,
cv313,
Main Source,
Marcia Griffiths,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Slackers,
Shoche,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Germs,
Sugar Minott,
The Standells,
The Monochrome Set,
Gichy Dan,
Technova,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.