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 Kyrgyzstan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Essential Logic to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Alphaville,
Colin Newman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
K-Klass,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Agitation Free,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lindisfarne,
Althea and Donna,
Glenn Branca,
Deepchord,
Bootsy Collins,
Ornette Coleman,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
In Retrospect,
Los Fastidios,
Fat Boys,
Popol Vuh,
H. Thieme,
Livin' Joy,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Unwound,
The Moody Blues,
The Neon Judgement,
The Seeds,
The New Christs,
Altered Images,
Peter and Kerry,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Martian,
Metal Thangz,
Thompson Twins,
Derrick May,
The Fall,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lucky Dragons,
Brand Nubian,
Vainqueur,
The Blackbyrds,
The Searchers,
Ken Boothe,
Slave,
Rakim,
Visage,
Brass Construction,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Real Kids,
Alison Limerick,
The Misunderstood,
New York Dolls,
Duran Duran,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.