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 Burkina and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Leonard Cohen to the jazz 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Glenn Branca,
Q and Not U,
Robert Görl,
The Blues Magoos,
Soft Cell,
Amon Düül,
DNA,
The Trojans,
John Foxx,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Neil Young,
Mad Mike,
Cymande,
The Offenders,
Excepter,
Alton Ellis,
Derrick May,
Deakin,
Ohio Players,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Fugs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sound,
Skarface,
Funky Four + One,
China Crisis,
the Swans,
Monolake,
Soul II Soul,
Agent Orange,
Jawbox,
One Last Wish,
Anakelly,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül II,
The Electric Prunes,
Bob Dylan,
New York Dolls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Shoche,
Khruangbin,
Sound Behaviour,
Grauzone,
Kayak,
the Human League,
World's Most,
JFA,
The Skatalites,
Boredoms,
The Sonics,
The Busters,
Faust,
The Golliwogs,
Sällskapet,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Q65,
Lightning Bolt,
Motorama,
Grey Daturas,
Supertramp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.