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 Indonesia and from New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the rap 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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Robert Wyatt,
the Human League,
New York Dolls,
Gichy Dan,
Royal Trux,
The Happenings,
Ken Boothe,
Barrington Levy,
Marvin Gaye,
Eric Dolphy,
Harmonia,
The Gap Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Evens,
The Shadows of Knight,
Symarip,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eurythmics,
Popol Vuh,
Rosa Yemen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Modern Lovers,
June Days,
the Soft Cell,
the Normal,
Shoche,
The Cowsills,
Amon Düül,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
DNA,
Crooked Eye,
The Moody Blues,
Faust,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crime,
Suburban Knight,
Avey Tare,
Alice Coltrane,
The Count Five,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wings,
The Sonics,
Bill Wells,
Echospace,
Fluxion,
James Chance & The Contortions,
AZ,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Fall,
The Vogues,
Los Fastidios,
DJ Sneak,
Warren Ellis,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.