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 Qatar and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Chris & Cosey to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
R.M.O.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Motions,
Trumans Water,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Audionom,
Sister Nancy,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pop Group,
Guru Guru,
cv313,
Adolescents,
Colin Newman,
Flipper,
Porter Ricks,
Rites of Spring,
Lebanon Hanover,
Reagan Youth,
B.T. Express,
Bluetip,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Be Bop Deluxe,
ABC,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Searchers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soft Machine,
The Doors,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Sight & Sound,
PIL,
These Immortal Souls,
the Swans,
Massinfluence,
Dual Sessions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Todd Terry,
Anakelly,
Zapp,
Thompson Twins,
Accadde A,
Nas,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gun Club,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Animal Collective,
Half Japanese,
The Techniques,
Fat Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aaron Thompson,
Inner City,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.