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 Guinea-Bissau and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Birthday Party to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Blancmange,
kango's stein massive,
The Fall,
Shoche,
Wings,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Audionom,
The Seeds,
Rekid,
Q65,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Wally Richardson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Radiohead,
Easy Going,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ronan,
Robert Wyatt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Moebius,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
The Grass Roots,
Pulsallama,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Fat Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sandy B,
Barry Ungar,
Lungfish,
X-101,
Isaac Hayes,
The Doors,
Unwound,
Jeff Lynne,
The Standells,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jacques Brel,
Deadbeat,
The Fire Engines,
World's Most,
Prince Buster,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fatback Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sight & Sound,
Smog,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Unrelated Segments,
The Mummies,
Au Pairs,
Mission of Burma,
Country Teasers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Albert Ayler,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crooked Eye,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.