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 St Lucia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Gerry Rafferty to the punk 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soft Cell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Smog,
The Fuzztones,
Johnny Clarke,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Delta 5,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rotary Connection,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Con Funk Shun,
Sound Behaviour,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Human League,
Drexciya,
Young Marble Giants,
The Vogues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeff Lynne,
The Leaves,
Dawn Penn,
Pulsallama,
Amon Düül II,
The Electric Prunes,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Modern Lovers,
Trumans Water,
Mandrill,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ossler,
Panda Bear,
Masters at Work,
Japan,
Wire,
Deepchord,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Theoretical Girls,
Lungfish,
Babytalk,
Ronan,
Reagan Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crash Course in Science,
June Days,
B.T. Express,
Kayak,
Zero Boys,
China Crisis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Index,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.