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 Somalia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar 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 Flash Fearless to the rap 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Agent Orange,
Intrusion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bad Manners,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David McCallum,
Cymande,
Arab on Radar,
Ludus,
Stetsasonic,
Moss Icon,
Anakelly,
Todd Rundgren,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang Starr,
Stockholm Monsters,
Radio Birdman,
Ultimate Spinach,
China Crisis,
Thompson Twins,
Arcadia,
Chris Corsano,
This Heat,
Eric Copeland,
Colin Newman,
Eve St. Jones,
Joey Negro,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
Suicide,
Connie Case,
Infiniti,
Warsaw,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ken Boothe,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nirvana,
Peter & Gordon,
Gichy Dan,
The Happenings,
Jawbox,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Bourne,
Pharoah Sanders,
Absolute Body Control,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sparks,
The Gories,
Roger Hodgson,
Dual Sessions,
The Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sam Rivers,
The Cowsills,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.