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 United States and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Second Layer,
Saccharine Trust,
The Dead C,
The Gap Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Adolescents,
Rapeman,
Radiohead,
The Fugs,
The Invisible,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scan 7,
Anthony Braxton,
Outsiders,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mandrill,
Chris & Cosey,
Liliput,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rosa Yemen,
The Count Five,
Maleditus Sound,
Nils Olav,
ABC,
The Residents,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sound Behaviour,
Smog,
Lalann,
Amazonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Moon,
Bobby Byrd,
H. Thieme,
Wally Richardson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Janne Schatter,
The Buckinghams,
Stockholm Monsters,
Loose Ends,
The Human League,
Quadrant,
Gabor Szabo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Qualms,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
In Retrospect,
Oneida,
Kenny Larkin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Skriet,
Tres Demented,
Jeff Lynne,
Vainqueur,
Fat Boys,
The Fortunes,
The Tremeloes,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.