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 Lebanon and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Walker Brothers to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Spoonie Gee,
Archie Shepp,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Christie,
Neu!,
Smog,
Bob Dylan,
La Düsseldorf,
Television,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sällskapet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Hill,
Oneida,
Average White Band,
Amon Düül,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Morten Harket,
Minutemen,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pylon,
The Busters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camouflage,
June of 44,
Make Up,
Essential Logic,
Sun City Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fluxion,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kevin Saunderson,
H. Thieme,
cv313,
Rhythm & Sound,
Khruangbin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cameo,
New York Dolls,
Chrome,
Davy DMX,
Q and Not U,
Albert Ayler,
Pantaleimon,
Kerri Chandler,
The Golliwogs,
Oblivians,
Arab on Radar,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gories,
Mr. Review,
John Foxx,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.