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 Argentina 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Surgeon to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
L. Decosne,
Maurizio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Anthony Braxton,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soul II Soul,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sugar Minott,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Pus,
Soft Machine,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Whodini,
James White and The Blacks,
The Golliwogs,
Ludus,
Thompson Twins,
Brand Nubian,
CMW,
Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Tom Boy,
Erasure,
Morten Harket,
Underground Resistance,
Dave Gahan,
Piero Umiliani,
Lyres,
Camouflage,
Liliput,
Amon Düül,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Can,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities,
Patti Smith,
Cecil Taylor,
These Immortal Souls,
The Techniques,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Gories,
Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
Delta 5,
Nick Fraelich,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wings,
Cymande,
Max Romeo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tears for Fears,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeff Lynne,
The Gun Club,
Sun City Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Susan Cadogan,
Groovy Waters,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.