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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Carl Craig to the dance 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Siglo XX,
Ludus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Index,
Stiv Bators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aswad,
Judy Mowatt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ohio Players,
The Leaves,
Basic Channel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hardrive,
Aaron Thompson,
Desert Stars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joensuu 1685,
Lalann,
The Beau Brummels,
Yellowson,
Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Terry,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jeff Lynne,
Heaven 17,
Bang On A Can,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Smoke,
Slave,
Technova,
Magazine,
David Bowie,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bob Dylan,
Erykah Badu,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Invisible,
Minor Threat,
Roxy Music,
Sandy B,
Jeff Mills,
In Retrospect,
Minutemen,
The Buckinghams,
The United States of America,
Supertramp,
Interpol,
Eric B and Rakim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lightning Bolt,
The Human League,
Lou Christie,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eve St. Jones,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.