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 Slovenia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Toni Rubio to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Porter Ricks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Pierre Henry,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mandrill,
The Gories,
Icehouse,
Barclay James Harvest,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
H. Thieme,
Dead Boys,
Hardrive,
Susan Cadogan,
Anthony Braxton,
The Martian,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
David Axelrod,
Black Moon,
The Names,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cluster,
Brass Construction,
The Evens,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siglo XX,
The Fortunes,
Dark Day,
AZ,
Idris Muhammad,
The Knickerbockers,
Aural Exciters,
The Modern Lovers,
Nirvana,
China Crisis,
Adolescents,
Section 25,
The Durutti Column,
Cameo,
Youth Brigade,
Jeff Lynne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ohio Players,
Skarface,
The Move,
Brick,
Mark Hollis,
Mars,
Godley & Creme,
Kayak,
Suburban Knight,
James White and The Blacks,
The Leaves,
the Germs,
Masters at Work,
The Grass Roots,
The Remains,
Symarip,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.