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 France and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Velvet Underground,
Tres Demented,
Panda Bear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brass Construction,
Simply Red,
Unwound,
Tubeway Army,
Barry Ungar,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Hill,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kool Moe Dee,
Chris Corsano,
48th St. Collective,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Sneak,
DNA,
Roxette,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fela Kuti,
Bill Wells,
World's Most,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Surgeon,
Excepter,
Infiniti,
H. Thieme,
Juan Atkins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Womack,
Faraquet,
The Selecter,
Ronan,
10cc,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
Clear Light,
Crime,
The Birthday Party,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott Heron,
Skaos,
Pierre Henry,
B.T. Express,
Terry Callier,
the Association,
The Trojans,
John Cale,
John Holt,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Vogues,
Public Image Ltd.,
Colin Newman,
L. Decosne,
Spoonie Gee,
Average White Band,
Marine Girls,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.