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 Macedonia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe 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 This Heat to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
June of 44,
The Busters,
Electric Prunes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Anthony Braxton,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Lydon,
Ituana,
Nick Fraelich,
Visage,
The Grass Roots,
Al Stewart,
Tommy Roe,
Amon Düül II,
The Five Americans,
Youth Brigade,
Fatback Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Searchers,
Bauhaus,
Chrome,
Hashim,
The Fortunes,
Brass Construction,
Icehouse,
Eden Ahbez,
Eve St. Jones,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Metal Thangz,
Subhumans,
Drexciya,
Harry Pussy,
Nas,
The Leaves,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Blancmange,
Erasure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Maleditus Sound,
Soft Cell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Electric Prunes,
DJ Sneak,
Cluster,
The Wake,
Tres Demented,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kevin Saunderson,
Essential Logic,
Eric Dolphy,
Surgeon,
Outsiders,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gladiators,
Henry Cow,
Soulsonic Force,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.