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 Guinea and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Essential Logic to the funk 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 The Martian. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Soulsonic Force,
Henry Cow,
Soft Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fluxion,
Donny Hathaway,
Ituana,
Rotary Connection,
The American Breed,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Roger Hodgson,
Brand Nubian,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
New Age Steppers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jawbox,
PIL,
Schoolly D,
Bluetip,
Hasil Adkins,
Dual Sessions,
Public Image Ltd.,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Sheep,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Interpol,
U.S. Maple,
The Count Five,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Susan Cadogan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Chrome,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Motions,
Excepter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bauhaus,
Tom Boy,
Sparks,
Malaria!,
The Victims,
Pole,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Graham Central Station,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Essential Logic,
The Doobie Brothers,
cv313,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sun City Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Toasters,
Barbara Tucker,
Yusef Lateef,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.