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 Italy and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Al Stewart,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Stooges,
Quadrant,
Alison Limerick,
Pole,
Lightning Bolt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
OOIOO,
Country Teasers,
The Skatalites,
Young Marble Giants,
Bob Dylan,
Unrelated Segments,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sister Nancy,
Warren Ellis,
Eurythmics,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gabor Szabo,
Eric Dolphy,
Mark Hollis,
Ice-T,
John Cale,
John Foxx,
Von Mondo,
Eden Ahbez,
Godley & Creme,
In Retrospect,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kaleidoscope,
Harry Pussy,
Stockholm Monsters,
A Certain Ratio,
Scan 7,
Susan Cadogan,
Aswad,
Robert Görl,
Yusef Lateef,
Das Ding,
Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
Danielle Patucci,
Scientists,
Minnie Riperton,
The Mojo Men,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Remains,
Loose Ends,
Black Bananas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eric Copeland,
The Trojans,
The Slits,
Technova,
Harpers Bizarre,
Idris Muhammad,
Judy Mowatt,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Hill,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.