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 Syria and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Second Layer to the techno 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Barracudas,
Bad Manners,
Swans,
Bill Wells,
Brothers Johnson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slick Rick,
Moebius,
The Wake,
Visage,
Essential Logic,
Surgeon,
Supertramp,
Circle Jerks,
Q and Not U,
The Associates,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Image Ltd.,
In Retrospect,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bush Tetras,
Quantec,
The Standells,
The Searchers,
Ronnie Foster,
Q65,
The Stooges,
Guru Guru,
Hot Snakes,
Bobby Sherman,
The Dirtbombs,
Schoolly D,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June of 44,
The Raincoats,
Tom Boy,
Soft Machine,
Rekid,
The Gun Club,
La Düsseldorf,
Marc Almond,
Newcleus,
Max Romeo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Camouflage,
Unwound,
the Soft Cell,
The Fire Engines,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Darondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Order,
The Velvet Underground,
Young Marble Giants,
The Gap Band,
Tres Demented,
Cecil Taylor,
AZ,
Todd Terry,
John Lydon,
Janne Schatter,
Deadbeat,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.