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 Norway and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 oboe 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 Marine Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
ABC,
Brothers Johnson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerri Chandler,
The Victims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalann,
Sandy B,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Cal Tjader,
Fluxion,
The Leaves,
Newcleus,
Joe Smooth,
EPMD,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Al Stewart,
Wings,
the Soft Cell,
Camberwell Now,
Liliput,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Excepter,
Soft Cell,
Swell Maps,
Bauhaus,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scrapy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-102,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Delta 5,
Slick Rick,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
La Düsseldorf,
Cameo,
The Gladiators,
Marmalade,
Vainqueur,
Loose Ends,
Gang of Four,
Rakim,
The Gories,
Ten City,
The Gap Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
H. Thieme,
The New Christs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
a-ha,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fire Engines,
Susan Cadogan,
The Walker Brothers,
Roxette,
Lee Hazlewood,
China Crisis,
the Sonics,
Gang Starr,
Intrusion,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.