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 Greece and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Buckinghams to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
the Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Holt,
Section 25,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bauhaus,
Darondo,
Theoretical Girls,
Peter and Kerry,
Little Man,
Average White Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lakeside,
Gang of Four,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Isaac Hayes,
The Divine Comedy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Niagra,
Peter & Gordon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aaron Thompson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
UT,
Mark Hollis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arthur Verocai,
Zero Boys,
Gong,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
Pole,
Chrome,
Nils Olav,
Eli Mardock,
the Human League,
Cameo,
Tres Demented,
EPMD,
Buzzcocks,
Ponytail,
Prince Buster,
X-Ray Spex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Half Japanese,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lightning Bolt,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.