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 Serbia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Hoover to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
The Sound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lalann,
Panda Bear,
John Cale,
Bluetip,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Erasure,
Moebius,
Lyres,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stetsasonic,
The Black Dice,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Normal,
Babytalk,
Rites of Spring,
Skarface,
The Misunderstood,
The Blues Magoos,
Shuggie Otis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Maleditus Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lakeside,
Theoretical Girls,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Monks,
Index,
Radiohead,
New York Dolls,
Second Layer,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soulsonic Force,
The Pop Group,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Hood,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sandy B,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ornette Coleman,
The Five Americans,
Roxy Music,
Pulsallama,
John Lydon,
Blancmange,
Terry Callier,
Niagra,
Massinfluence,
Don Cherry,
Amon Düül,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Youth Brigade,
Bobby Sherman,
Danielle Patucci,
These Immortal Souls,
Arab on Radar,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.