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 Cuba and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bobby Sherman to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
June of 44,
John Lydon,
La Düsseldorf,
Dual Sessions,
Fear,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kool Moe Dee,
Trumans Water,
Half Japanese,
Pussy Galore,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Essential Logic,
Lower 48,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
OOIOO,
Dorothy Ashby,
Anakelly,
Faraquet,
Eli Mardock,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Fraelich,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pole,
The Five Americans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lakeside,
the Germs,
Patti Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terry Callier,
10cc,
The Residents,
Alice Coltrane,
New Order,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
MDC,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Arthur Verocai,
Ronnie Foster,
The Wake,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeff Lynne,
Quadrant,
Roger Hodgson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Panda Bear,
Henry Cow,
Massinfluence,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drexciya,
Alphaville,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.