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 Bahrain and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 Section 25 to the jazz 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Newcleus,
Matthew Bourne,
Cybotron,
Sound Behaviour,
the Association,
Moss Icon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rufus Thomas,
Ornette Coleman,
Parry Music,
Arab on Radar,
Gastr Del Sol,
Prince Buster,
The Martian,
Y Pants,
Dual Sessions,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
Agent Orange,
Sight & Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Lou Christie,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Techniques,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lower 48,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warsaw,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
The Monochrome Set,
Rapeman,
The Pretty Things,
Alton Ellis,
Wings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yaz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mantronix,
Fela Kuti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brothers Johnson,
a-ha,
Rosa Yemen,
Juan Atkins,
Kenny Larkin,
Aswad,
Chris Corsano,
The Cramps,
Peter & Gordon,
Cameo,
Bobby Sherman,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultimate Spinach,
John Cale,
The Stooges,
John Coltrane,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback 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.