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 Dominican Republic and from Halifax.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Negative Approach to the techno 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Ituana,
Don Cherry,
Oneida,
a-ha,
Harmonia,
Blancmange,
Second Layer,
June Days,
The Motions,
Duran Duran,
Kas Product,
Chris & Cosey,
Arcadia,
Absolute Body Control,
Boz Scaggs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unwound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Main Source,
Television Personalities,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Barbara Tucker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Idris Muhammad,
ABC,
Altered Images,
Saccharine Trust,
Magma,
Pere Ubu,
John Foxx,
Fear,
Oblivians,
Surgeon,
Clear Light,
The Leaves,
Pantytec,
Infiniti,
Stetsasonic,
Essential Logic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul II Soul,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Move,
JFA,
Skarface,
Whodini,
The Grass Roots,
Nico,
Big Daddy Kane,
Buzzcocks,
Brand Nubian,
Scrapy,
Eden Ahbez,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Funkadelic,
The Zeros,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.