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 Denmark and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 OOIOO to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jerry's Kids,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hardrive,
Echospace,
Sister Nancy,
Amazonics,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
David Bowie,
The Durutti Column,
Marine Girls,
Soft Machine,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Symarip,
Sight & Sound,
Model 500,
Groovy Waters,
Graham Central Station,
Hasil Adkins,
Sandy B,
Tommy Roe,
The Modern Lovers,
Bauhaus,
Gichy Dan,
Grauzone,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gong,
CMW,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mad Mike,
Accadde A,
Piero Umiliani,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Essential Logic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Toni Rubio,
Eden Ahbez,
World's Most,
Second Layer,
Mr. Review,
Reuben Wilson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grey Daturas,
Stockholm Monsters,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sonic Youth,
Von Mondo,
Massinfluence,
ABC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wire,
Yaz,
Bush Tetras,
Q and Not U,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.