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 Monaco and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar 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 Altered Images to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Piero Umiliani,
Jacob Miller,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Divine Comedy,
Franke,
Isaac Hayes,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
The Skatalites,
Scratch Acid,
Brick,
Oneida,
Lou Reed,
Scrapy,
Boz Scaggs,
Lungfish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young,
Zapp,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Pop Group,
Marine Girls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ice-T,
Mo-Dettes,
Joe Smooth,
This Heat,
Trumans Water,
Eve St. Jones,
Pierre Henry,
Kas Product,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Metal Thangz,
Organ,
Matthew Halsall,
Sonny Sharrock,
Monks,
Liliput,
Supertramp,
Loose Ends,
Yellowson,
Lyres,
Anakelly,
Gichy Dan,
Fela Kuti,
the Association,
Max Romeo,
The Associates,
Panda Bear,
Ronnie Foster,
Urselle,
Albert Ayler,
Main Source,
Bill Wells,
The Raincoats,
Drive Like Jehu,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.