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 Nigeria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mo-Dettes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Delon & Dalcan,
Absolute Body Control,
Ten City,
Livin' Joy,
The Angels of Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
Aaron Thompson,
Sonic Youth,
Boz Scaggs,
Brick,
Hasil Adkins,
The Index,
Funky Four + One,
PIL,
Jandek,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
Cameo,
Sight & Sound,
The Busters,
Amazonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lightning Bolt,
Pantytec,
Sixth Finger,
The Barracudas,
Television,
Amon Düül,
Tears for Fears,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dave Gahan,
The Dead C,
Lalann,
Scott Walker,
Althea and Donna,
Agent Orange,
Second Layer,
Cymande,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Monks,
the Human League,
Franke,
Ultravox,
Zapp,
The Cure,
Negative Approach,
Newcleus,
The New Christs,
The Names,
Schoolly D,
The Electric Prunes,
The Stooges,
Arthur Verocai,
The Invisible,
a-ha,
Groovy Waters,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.