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 Guatemala and from Mumbai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
MC5,
the Association,
The Monks,
A Certain Ratio,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker,
Adolescents,
Andrew Hill,
Peter and Kerry,
Second Layer,
Intrusion,
Barry Ungar,
Hardrive,
Avey Tare,
D'Angelo,
LL Cool J,
Average White Band,
The Zeros,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Symarip,
Scratch Acid,
Moby Grape,
Flash Fearless,
David Bowie,
Lakeside,
Carl Craig,
Robert Wyatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Masters at Work,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dave Clark Five,
Freddie Wadling,
Darondo,
Lindisfarne,
Half Japanese,
Quando Quango,
Rosa Yemen,
Essential Logic,
Joensuu 1685,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Supertramp,
Bad Manners,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Holt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nirvana,
Sex Pistols,
Animal Collective,
Fluxion,
The Cramps,
Depeche Mode,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Man Parrish,
Faust,
Yaz,
Lou Christie,
The Happenings,
The Human League,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.