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 Bulgaria and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bobby Sherman to the crunk 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cybotron,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacques Brel,
Kas Product,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eric Copeland,
Lalo Schifrin,
Visage,
Little Man,
Arthur Verocai,
Slave,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marc Almond,
Chris & Cosey,
Nils Olav,
Main Source,
Black Bananas,
Pole,
10cc,
The Smoke,
Das Ding,
The Trojans,
Circle Jerks,
Tubeway Army,
Sight & Sound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Unrelated Segments,
Absolute Body Control,
Television,
cv313,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sun City Girls,
Marmalade,
Bob Dylan,
Althea and Donna,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers,
The Sonics,
Aural Exciters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skriet,
The Tremeloes,
The Neon Judgement,
Con Funk Shun,
Rites of Spring,
Anakelly,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skarface,
The Smiths,
Tres Demented,
U.S. Maple,
Danielle Patucci,
Audionom,
Isaac Hayes,
Schoolly D,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Wyatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth 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.