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 Tehran.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the funk 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Drexciya,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rakim,
The Flesh Eaters,
Chrome,
Lou Christie,
The Gun Club,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brick,
The Walker Brothers,
Moby Grape,
Harmonia,
Kayak,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bill Wells,
Magma,
New York Dolls,
Godley & Creme,
The Fortunes,
James White and The Blacks,
Mad Mike,
The Remains,
Bad Manners,
Soul II Soul,
Joe Finger,
Thompson Twins,
Qualms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ken Boothe,
David McCallum,
Gichy Dan,
Adolescents,
Eddi Front,
Organ,
The Modern Lovers,
Reuben Wilson,
Scientists,
Ludus,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Subhumans,
Cecil Taylor,
The Mummies,
Arcadia,
Crash Course in Science,
Procol Harum,
World's Most,
The Gap Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
Hardrive,
Ten City,
China Crisis,
Aswad,
Spoonie Gee,
Yazoo,
Black Moon,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.