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 Burkina and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Underground Resistance to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
DNA,
Fluxion,
Warsaw,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Womack,
These Immortal Souls,
Section 25,
New Age Steppers,
Pantytec,
R.M.O.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Barclay James Harvest,
Patti Smith,
Intrusion,
Tears for Fears,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Howard Jones,
Swell Maps,
Eli Mardock,
Brothers Johnson,
This Heat,
Dead Boys,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moleskins,
Camouflage,
Pylon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lucky Dragons,
Prince Buster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fuzztones,
Dark Day,
Bronski Beat,
Depeche Mode,
The Vogues,
T.S.O.L.,
Hasil Adkins,
LL Cool J,
Peter & Gordon,
Barbara Tucker,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Country Teasers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fortunes,
Kurtis Blow,
the Sonics,
Eddi Front,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grey Daturas,
Newcleus,
Moss Icon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.