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 Togo and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Blackbyrds to the disco 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roxy Music,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alton Ellis,
Flash Fearless,
Monks,
The Slackers,
John Coltrane,
Aural Exciters,
MC5,
Henry Cow,
Q and Not U,
Mo-Dettes,
Au Pairs,
Mantronix,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Inner City,
The Wake,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terry Callier,
Negative Approach,
the Slits,
Sister Nancy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Unrelated Segments,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kas Product,
The Human League,
Sandy B,
Ludus,
T.S.O.L.,
James White and The Blacks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aaron Thompson,
Masters at Work,
Pierre Henry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Max Romeo,
Tom Boy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gap Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Five Americans,
Gichy Dan,
DJ Sneak,
The Doobie Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
Lightning Bolt,
Pere Ubu,
Panda Bear,
Television Personalities,
Mark Hollis,
Ultravox,
Leonard Cohen,
The Dirtbombs,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.