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 Syria and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Houston.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Duran Duran to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Sällskapet,
Liliput,
Joe Smooth,
Tim Buckley,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bill Wells,
Mark Hollis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Spandau Ballet,
Kaleidoscope,
Isaac Hayes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kenny Larkin,
The Alarm Clocks,
a-ha,
The American Breed,
Slick Rick,
The Blackbyrds,
Talk Talk,
The Walker Brothers,
The Wake,
Technova,
Ituana,
Ohio Players,
Television Personalities,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Althea and Donna,
JFA,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kas Product,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang of Four,
Sight & Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Camouflage,
Blossom Toes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Young Rascals,
Gabor Szabo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nas,
Agent Orange,
DNA,
Freddie Wadling,
Hoover,
Reagan Youth,
Inner City,
Terry Callier,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fear,
Kayak,
Donald Byrd,
The Black Dice,
Von Mondo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cluster,
Guru Guru,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.