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 Grenada and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Deakin to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom 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?
Gerry Rafferty,
FM Einheit,
Jacob Miller,
Peter & Gordon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Liliput,
Nirvana,
Pantaleimon,
The Angels of Light,
Funkadelic,
Soft Cell,
MDC,
The Mummies,
Sun City Girls,
Dawn Penn,
The Music Machine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Das Ding,
The Doobie Brothers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
X-Ray Spex,
Ultravox,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Morten Harket,
Thompson Twins,
Angry Samoans,
Danielle Patucci,
Loose Ends,
Mars,
Smog,
Jerry's Kids,
Curtis Mayfield,
Interpol,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick Morgan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Inner City,
Trumans Water,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Johnny Clarke,
Zero Boys,
UT,
Black Bananas,
DNA,
The Cramps,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Vogues,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Procol Harum,
The Wake,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minny Pops,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Techniques,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Litter,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobby Womack,
Pulsallama,
The Durutti Column,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.