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 Mali and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Associates to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Circle Jerks,
T. Rex,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blackbyrds,
Barclay James Harvest,
X-102,
The Knickerbockers,
Oneida,
Theoretical Girls,
Ponytail,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fatback Band,
This Heat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
Qualms,
The Move,
Cymande,
Cluster,
Janne Schatter,
Danielle Patucci,
Alton Ellis,
Pulsallama,
Cheater Slicks,
The Searchers,
Crash Course in Science,
Morten Harket,
Susan Cadogan,
New Order,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Amazonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ornette Coleman,
Byron Stingily,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fuzztones,
Scan 7,
Depeche Mode,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DNA,
Kerrie Biddell,
Isaac Hayes,
Slave,
Tropical Tobacco,
Talk Talk,
Monolake,
Rotary Connection,
R.M.O.,
The Zeros,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Human League,
Neil Young,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric Dolphy,
Scratch Acid,
Sun City Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Grey Daturas,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.