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 Grenada and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Faust to the grunge 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
David McCallum,
Loose Ends,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultra Naté,
Dead Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Carl Craig,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Godley & Creme,
Stiv Bators,
Rites of Spring,
Gong,
DJ Sneak,
Rakim,
The Human League,
The Fall,
Minny Pops,
Flipper,
The Gories,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
H. Thieme,
The Barracudas,
Adolescents,
Banda Bassotti,
New York Dolls,
Funky Four + One,
Arab on Radar,
Ossler,
Fela Kuti,
Altered Images,
The Black Dice,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Motions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Association,
Massinfluence,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grauzone,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fat Boys,
kango's stein massive,
The Buckinghams,
The Beau Brummels,
Hot Snakes,
Con Funk Shun,
Bobby Sherman,
Vladislav Delay,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare,
Steve Hackett,
New Age Steppers,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiohead,
T. Rex,
The Blues Magoos,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.