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 Turkmenistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Todd Terry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Moebius,
Godley & Creme,
Brick,
Kurtis Blow,
Warsaw,
Rotary Connection,
Sarah Menescal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Desert Stars,
Bob Dylan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Pretty Things,
Pere Ubu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter & Gordon,
Little Man,
The Trojans,
Jacob Miller,
John Foxx,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Normal,
Flipper,
Alton Ellis,
Flash Fearless,
Eden Ahbez,
Ohio Players,
The Fuzztones,
The Raincoats,
Big Daddy Kane,
Connie Case,
Masters at Work,
The Black Dice,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alphaville,
Sister Nancy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kerrie Biddell,
Matthew Halsall,
Zapp,
Con Funk Shun,
Erasure,
Hasil Adkins,
Moss Icon,
Cymande,
In Retrospect,
Amon Düül,
Derrick Morgan,
Talk Talk,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Johnny Clarke,
The Zeros,
Eric B and Rakim,
Banda Bassotti,
David McCallum,
The Count Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.