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 Haiti and from New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 marimba 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 Ohio Players to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Supertramp,
The Invisible,
Hot Snakes,
Ohio Players,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Make Up,
The Real Kids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Minutemen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yusef Lateef,
Panda Bear,
The Toasters,
Howard Jones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skaos,
Bobby Sherman,
Urselle,
Roxy Music,
The Five Americans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities,
The Moody Blues,
Echospace,
Camouflage,
Marc Almond,
Arthur Verocai,
Grauzone,
Eli Mardock,
Slick Rick,
The Pretty Things,
Adolescents,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kayak,
Black Sheep,
Faust,
The Cowsills,
X-Ray Spex,
The Doors,
The Walker Brothers,
Albert Ayler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Beau Brummels,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blancmange,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Womack,
The Human League,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bronski Beat,
Q and Not U,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.