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 Dominica and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 Nation of Ulysses to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Zero Boys,
Quadrant,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Isaac Hayes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Accadde A,
Motorama,
Ponytail,
Patti Smith,
Scratch Acid,
Mandrill,
Bobby Womack,
Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Deakin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sight & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Flag,
Bill Wells,
Duran Duran,
Chris Corsano,
Lungfish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aaron Thompson,
Soul II Soul,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
KRS-One,
Visage,
Siglo XX,
David McCallum,
Technova,
Matthew Halsall,
Oblivians,
Outsiders,
Cybotron,
Dennis Brown,
Joyce Sims,
Popol Vuh,
the Soft Cell,
The Litter,
John Cale,
F. McDonald,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Royal Trux,
Deepchord,
The Moleskins,
Ultimate Spinach,
Y Pants,
Amon Düül,
Erasure,
Marmalade,
Sällskapet,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tommy Roe,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.