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 Kyrgyzstan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bizarre Inc. to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
E-Dancer,
Prince Buster,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Slits,
Barry Ungar,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smiths,
Scan 7,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Todd Terry,
Jandek,
Maleditus Sound,
Tom Boy,
PIL,
Iggy Pop,
Oneida,
Second Layer,
The Young Rascals,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crooked Eye,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Bar-Kays,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Visage,
the Germs,
the Association,
The Human League,
Delta 5,
Soul II Soul,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Patti Smith,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blossom Toes,
These Immortal Souls,
Pere Ubu,
Fat Boys,
cv313,
Los Fastidios,
Siglo XX,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
In Retrospect,
Moss Icon,
Godley & Creme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aaron Thompson,
Brick,
The Fire Engines,
X-102,
The Fortunes,
Quando Quango,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Saints,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nick Fraelich,
Josef K,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.