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 Slovenia and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the rock 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
David Axelrod,
Altered Images,
World's Most,
Anakelly,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Porter Ricks,
Lou Reed,
David McCallum,
Soft Cell,
Basic Channel,
Quantec,
X-102,
The Gladiators,
Howard Jones,
Barbara Tucker,
Heaven 17,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hardrive,
LL Cool J,
Los Fastidios,
The Cosmic Jokers,
CMW,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gap Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ituana,
Kaleidoscope,
Bad Manners,
Yusef Lateef,
The Tremeloes,
Traffic Nightmare,
kango's stein massive,
Can,
Shuggie Otis,
Khruangbin,
Radiohead,
Neil Young,
Idris Muhammad,
Television Personalities,
Scratch Acid,
The Black Dice,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Starr,
Lower 48,
Spoonie Gee,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Depeche Mode,
Oblivians,
Lightning Bolt,
Jacques Brel,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Severed Heads,
DJ Sneak,
Thompson Twins,
Eden Ahbez,
Joe Finger,
The Beau Brummels,
Bluetip,
Average White Band,
Sun Ra,
The Searchers,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.