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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Black Bananas to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
the Normal,
Tubeway Army,
Urselle,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
In Retrospect,
Reuben Wilson,
Technova,
Deepchord,
Slave,
Mandrill,
Piero Umiliani,
CMW,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
Kerri Chandler,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Foxx,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Techniques,
The Fall,
Sparks,
Easy Going,
Quantec,
Dave Gahan,
The Litter,
MDC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Gun Club,
Soul II Soul,
Terrestrial Tones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
Malaria!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Adolescents,
The Wake,
Minor Threat,
Lou Christie,
Letta Mbulu,
Rekid,
Roger Hodgson,
DJ Style,
David Axelrod,
Rosa Yemen,
Duran Duran,
Neil Young,
The Searchers,
Fela Kuti,
the Sonics,
The Doors,
The Monks,
LL Cool J,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Suburban Knight,
Amon Düül II,
Eve St. Jones,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fad Gadget,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.