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 United States and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 Sound to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
MDC,
Piero Umiliani,
The Associates,
The Invisible,
EPMD,
Matthew Bourne,
The Seeds,
Essential Logic,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Moon,
Chrome,
Mantronix,
The Fortunes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Faraquet,
Fat Boys,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kas Product,
Desert Stars,
Radiohead,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dual Sessions,
The Black Dice,
Dawn Penn,
FM Einheit,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Selecter,
Eurythmics,
Lalann,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Funkadelic,
Soft Cell,
Nico,
Hasil Adkins,
CMW,
Matthew Halsall,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Modern Lovers,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gories,
Darondo,
Pulsallama,
Roxy Music,
U.S. Maple,
Model 500,
Erykah Badu,
Newcleus,
H. Thieme,
Zapp,
Index,
The Cowsills,
Barclay James Harvest,
Boredoms,
The Walker Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
R.M.O.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ultravox,
Black Sheep,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.