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 Australia and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter and Kerry to the punk 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Sandy B,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed,
Matthew Halsall,
Lindisfarne,
Unrelated Segments,
MDC,
EPMD,
Fugazi,
Quadrant,
The Cure,
Dennis Brown,
The Mummies,
Brick,
The Gories,
Danielle Patucci,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roxette,
Maurizio,
Pagans,
Johnny Clarke,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Barry Ungar,
Jeff Mills,
The Zeros,
Motorama,
Bobby Hutcherson,
T.S.O.L.,
Grey Daturas,
Guru Guru,
T. Rex,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Selecter,
Delta 5,
Bad Manners,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Reagan Youth,
Black Flag,
Infiniti,
Curtis Mayfield,
Goldenarms,
The Golliwogs,
Unwound,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Severed Heads,
Todd Terry,
Marc Almond,
Hashim,
Bobby Sherman,
The Tremeloes,
Connie Case,
D'Angelo,
In Retrospect,
Rod Modell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.