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 Dominica and from Portland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hoover to the grunge 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Radio Birdman,
The Happenings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Flamin' Groovies,
Black Moon,
Cymande,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gap Band,
Arab on Radar,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grauzone,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young,
FM Einheit,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stereo Dub,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Schoolly D,
Toni Rubio,
Faust,
Intrusion,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ten City,
Livin' Joy,
Y Pants,
Althea and Donna,
Judy Mowatt,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harmonia,
Eve St. Jones,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lungfish,
Bad Manners,
Hasil Adkins,
The Saints,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
John Lydon,
The Fugs,
The Dirtbombs,
Pole,
Scan 7,
Mandrill,
Anthony Braxton,
Bang On A Can,
The Pop Group,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
H. Thieme,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.