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 Germany and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Sound Behaviour,
Blake Baxter,
Godley & Creme,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Average White Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eddi Front,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Christie,
The Walker Brothers,
R.M.O.,
The Doors,
Hardrive,
Deakin,
Icehouse,
Crispian St. Peters,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Livin' Joy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Associates,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Evens,
Franke,
The Toasters,
Goldenarms,
Lakeside,
The Fall,
Rotary Connection,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Symarip,
Underground Resistance,
Masters at Work,
Arcadia,
Moby Grape,
The Count Five,
The Angels of Light,
Flash Fearless,
Aaron Thompson,
Joy Division,
World's Most,
Bill Near,
Bad Manners,
Tomorrow,
Minutemen,
Joe Smooth,
Tim Buckley,
Von Mondo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Archie Shepp,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Selecter,
Fear,
Ituana,
Kaleidoscope,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ludus,
Lindisfarne,
Isaac Hayes,
The Divine Comedy,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.