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 Korea South and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Massinfluence to the rap 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
New Age Steppers,
Animal Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Velvet Underground,
Agent Orange,
Yazoo,
Nick Fraelich,
Easy Going,
EPMD,
Schoolly D,
Tubeway Army,
Magma,
Slave,
Black Sheep,
The Dave Clark Five,
Average White Band,
The Index,
Unrelated Segments,
Sam Rivers,
Bad Manners,
Barclay James Harvest,
Slick Rick,
Toni Rubio,
Intrusion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The United States of America,
The Barracudas,
The Cowsills,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Cure,
Mary Jane Girls,
X-102,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tomorrow,
Depeche Mode,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABC,
Idris Muhammad,
Kayak,
The Gun Club,
Radiohead,
The Fugs,
Howard Jones,
Sixth Finger,
The Techniques,
Sandy B,
Barbara Tucker,
Chrome,
Leonard Cohen,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roxy Music,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Selecter,
R.M.O.,
Wire,
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You don't know what you really want.
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