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 Libya and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Soulsonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Warsaw,
Prince Buster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ten City,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Goldenarms,
Dead Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
The Moleskins,
The Human League,
David McCallum,
Malaria!,
Donald Byrd,
Bronski Beat,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
Arthur Verocai,
Marmalade,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fuzztones,
Stetsasonic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tears for Fears,
Harpers Bizarre,
Newcleus,
K-Klass,
The Blues Magoos,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barclay James Harvest,
Surgeon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wally Richardson,
Lyres,
These Immortal Souls,
Spoonie Gee,
Saccharine Trust,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scan 7,
Mars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sam Rivers,
Soul II Soul,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pussy Galore,
Al Stewart,
Deepchord,
Little Man,
Quantec,
Yellowson,
The Techniques,
Crispian St. Peters,
Anakelly,
Bad Manners,
Pole,
Grey Daturas,
Technova,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.