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 Senegal and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Q and Not U to the funk 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Grey Daturas,
Groovy Waters,
Duran Duran,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mo-Dettes,
K-Klass,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joey Negro,
New Order,
Deadbeat,
Althea and Donna,
Slave,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roger Hodgson,
Little Man,
Amon Düül II,
Guru Guru,
Deakin,
Sonny Sharrock,
James White and The Blacks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ludus,
Ultravox,
Scratch Acid,
DNA,
Reagan Youth,
T.S.O.L.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Janne Schatter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kaleidoscope,
Sister Nancy,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cramps,
Banda Bassotti,
The Searchers,
Q65,
Can,
MC5,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Pus,
B.T. Express,
Marcia Griffiths,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magma,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Porter Ricks,
Pulsallama,
The Alarm Clocks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Saints,
Tres Demented,
MDC,
New York Dolls,
The Trojans,
H. Thieme,
Pagans,
Erykah Badu,
Pierre Henry,
Von Mondo,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.