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 Vietnam and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Easy Going to the grime 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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 oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fela Kuti,
Organ,
The Walker Brothers,
Bizarre Inc.,
One Last Wish,
Gregory Isaacs,
Isaac Hayes,
Absolute Body Control,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Malaria!,
Ponytail,
Qualms,
Marvin Gaye,
The Detroit Cobras,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Smiths,
B.T. Express,
La Düsseldorf,
Dead Boys,
Sugar Minott,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Wyatt,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra,
the Germs,
Leonard Cohen,
Bronski Beat,
Gabor Szabo,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Grass Roots,
L. Decosne,
Agent Orange,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Electric Prunes,
The Mojo Men,
Steve Hackett,
LL Cool J,
June Days,
Masters at Work,
Camouflage,
Godley & Creme,
The Modern Lovers,
Reagan Youth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Janne Schatter,
Pantytec,
KRS-One,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Negative Approach,
David McCallum,
Outsiders,
Marmalade,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.