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 Lesotho and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 The Selecter to the punk 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
E-Dancer,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pop Group,
Dennis Brown,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sun City Girls,
Panda Bear,
Neil Young,
FM Einheit,
Wolf Eyes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flash Fearless,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric Dolphy,
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rakim,
The Searchers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Country Teasers,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Real Kids,
Procol Harum,
Marc Almond,
Bob Dylan,
Rotary Connection,
In Retrospect,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Moon,
The Angels of Light,
Q65,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Slave,
The Moody Blues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Yazoo,
The Black Dice,
Funkadelic,
PIL,
Faraquet,
Eddi Front,
Depeche Mode,
Morten Harket,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fugs,
Roger Hodgson,
Patti Smith,
The Standells,
Ultra Naté,
Wally Richardson,
Echospace,
Lou Christie,
Chris & Cosey,
Neu!,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.