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 Zimbabwe and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Trumans Water to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Ronnie Foster,
Cheater Slicks,
Colin Newman,
Shuggie Otis,
Vainqueur,
The Move,
Scientists,
Erasure,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Fania All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
The Dirtbombs,
Rufus Thomas,
Reagan Youth,
Schoolly D,
Black Sheep,
Franke,
The Busters,
Tom Boy,
Lalann,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Essential Logic,
Easy Going,
Sound Behaviour,
Soft Machine,
Section 25,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skriet,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jeff Lynne,
Michelle Simonal,
8 Eyed Spy,
Masters at Work,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Siglo XX,
The Litter,
Talk Talk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Zero Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Duran Duran,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marine Girls,
Neil Young,
Yellowson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dark Day,
kango's stein massive,
Bush Tetras,
The Real Kids,
Chris & Cosey,
Wings,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fall,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
Chrome,
Eddi Front,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.