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 Norway and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Guru Guru to the punk 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Human League,
Roxette,
Dark Day,
U.S. Maple,
Ornette Coleman,
Adolescents,
Matthew Bourne,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deadbeat,
Gang of Four,
Flipper,
The Grass Roots,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Spoonie Gee,
Electric Prunes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Supertramp,
Babytalk,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DJ Style,
Roxy Music,
Moebius,
Arab on Radar,
Reuben Wilson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roy Ayers,
Hasil Adkins,
Mad Mike,
James White and The Blacks,
Donald Byrd,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fear,
Jacob Miller,
The Index,
Lindisfarne,
Derrick Morgan,
Aaron Thompson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Magma,
Smog,
Max Romeo,
Ultravox,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Harry Pussy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
K-Klass,
Lungfish,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Josef K,
Cybotron,
Dawn Penn,
Eli Mardock,
The Cure,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.