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 Belgium and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Nick Fraelich to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker,
Gil Scott Heron,
Aural Exciters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
R.M.O.,
DNA,
The Saints,
Inner City,
Mantronix,
Bad Manners,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Althea and Donna,
Roxette,
Massinfluence,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mandrill,
Piero Umiliani,
Donny Hathaway,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
MC5,
Eli Mardock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Au Pairs,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sällskapet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Clear Light,
Von Mondo,
The Human League,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dual Sessions,
Sound Behaviour,
Quando Quango,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sonic Youth,
The Monks,
Sugar Minott,
Warsaw,
Moss Icon,
Sixth Finger,
F. McDonald,
Make Up,
Slick Rick,
Bang On A Can,
The Doors,
Terry Callier,
Gang Green,
Public Enemy,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.