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 Qatar and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Guru Guru to the rap 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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DJ Sneak,
The Five Americans,
K-Klass,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Morten Harket,
Bad Manners,
Albert Ayler,
Johnny Clarke,
Barbara Tucker,
The Walker Brothers,
The Barracudas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cluster,
Lindisfarne,
Hoover,
AZ,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reagan Youth,
The Fall,
Blake Baxter,
The Human League,
Kenny Larkin,
the Normal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Delta 5,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sonic Youth,
Public Enemy,
Severed Heads,
R.M.O.,
Subhumans,
Bluetip,
Vainqueur,
Jeru the Damaja,
Y Pants,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
The Blackbyrds,
Parry Music,
Pylon,
Godley & Creme,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Wake,
Rosa Yemen,
Andrew Hill,
Glambeats Corp.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
L. Decosne,
Sight & Sound,
The Buckinghams,
Neu!,
Wally Richardson,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
The Searchers,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.