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 Kazakhstan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Icehouse to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
The New Christs,
Dennis Brown,
Lalo Schifrin,
PIL,
Al Stewart,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Judy Mowatt,
Youth Brigade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Alarm Clocks,
T.S.O.L.,
Gichy Dan,
Avey Tare,
ABBA,
Kayak,
Massinfluence,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lindisfarne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rod Modell,
Deadbeat,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pere Ubu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moebius,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Young Rascals,
Michelle Simonal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Icehouse,
Gastr Del Sol,
Con Funk Shun,
Amon Düül,
Ice-T,
Letta Mbulu,
The Durutti Column,
Kurtis Blow,
The Angels of Light,
Skarface,
The Cramps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
The Names,
Intrusion,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Flash Fearless,
Brass Construction,
Young Marble Giants,
Drive Like Jehu,
Prince Buster,
Skriet,
Joensuu 1685,
Accadde A,
The Fugs,
The Remains,
The Gap Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dark Day,
Donald Byrd,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch 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.