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 Lithuania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Curtis Mayfield,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Maurizio,
Kenny Larkin,
The Pretty Things,
Nils Olav,
Guru Guru,
Godley & Creme,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lower 48,
Porter Ricks,
the Bar-Kays,
Saccharine Trust,
Dual Sessions,
Cheater Slicks,
Gong,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fad Gadget,
The Index,
Tim Buckley,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Agitation Free,
Chrome,
Lou Christie,
Dead Boys,
The Seeds,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fortunes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cure,
Black Moon,
CMW,
Jerry's Kids,
Stetsasonic,
Davy DMX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Invisible,
AZ,
The Happenings,
The Martian,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ultra Naté,
The Fugs,
Toni Rubio,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Alice Coltrane,
The Move,
Boz Scaggs,
Fat Boys,
Prince Buster,
Roxette,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aloha Tigers,
Rekid,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.