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 Nepal and from Portland.
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 Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Neu! to the grunge 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Marvin Gaye,
X-102,
Dennis Brown,
Niagra,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Boogie Down Productions,
Basic Channel,
Sandy B,
Organ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Whodini,
MDC,
The Angels of Light,
Grauzone,
Scratch Acid,
Yazoo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Laurel Aitken,
Model 500,
Sparks,
Excepter,
Fat Boys,
June of 44,
Skriet,
The Skatalites,
Lou Christie,
Todd Rundgren,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The United States of America,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kaleidoscope,
Roger Hodgson,
Judy Mowatt,
Kerri Chandler,
The Invisible,
New Age Steppers,
Deakin,
The Music Machine,
The Dirtbombs,
Sällskapet,
The Vogues,
The Young Rascals,
Toni Rubio,
Hasil Adkins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nirvana,
Eddi Front,
Terry Callier,
Surgeon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Altered Images,
Jerry's Kids,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camberwell Now,
Panda Bear,
Absolute Body Control,
The Associates,
MC5,
Saccharine Trust,
Easy Going,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.