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 Estonia and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Buzzcocks to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Brand Nubian,
Shuggie Otis,
Tres Demented,
Audionom,
Josef K,
Monolake,
Section 25,
Neil Young,
Connie Case,
Stetsasonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sonics,
10cc,
Rod Modell,
Mission of Burma,
Kurtis Blow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gang Green,
Tubeway Army,
Prince Buster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television Personalities,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Lynne,
Silicon Teens,
Nick Fraelich,
Vainqueur,
The Electric Prunes,
Zero Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Donny Hathaway,
Lungfish,
Minnie Riperton,
Wire,
Sight & Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ronnie Foster,
Accadde A,
David Axelrod,
Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare,
The Kinks,
Eric Dolphy,
The Dead C,
Aswad,
The Gap Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cowsills,
H. Thieme,
Eric Copeland,
Jandek,
Inner City,
Sam Rivers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Busters,
Blake Baxter,
The Pop Group,
Black Flag,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Skatalites,
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.