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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Andrew Hill,
Massinfluence,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David McCallum,
Sugar Minott,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Walker Brothers,
The Grass Roots,
Robert Wyatt,
Man Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aural Exciters,
China Crisis,
Lightning Bolt,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fire Engines,
The Fall,
Kerri Chandler,
Drexciya,
Scott Walker,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Sound,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fela Kuti,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Selecter,
Das Ding,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lalann,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The United States of America,
Unrelated Segments,
Kurtis Blow,
Pole,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pantytec,
Cal Tjader,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rosa Yemen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter & Gordon,
Smog,
Chris & Cosey,
Bronski Beat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric B and Rakim,
Magazine,
Hardrive,
Nico,
Judy Mowatt,
F. McDonald,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doors,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ken Boothe,
Intrusion,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.