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 Qatar and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar 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 The Misunderstood to the disco 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
The Barracudas,
Bauhaus,
Prince Buster,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tres Demented,
Ten City,
Talk Talk,
Brass Construction,
Con Funk Shun,
The Flesh Eaters,
Crooked Eye,
Gang of Four,
Arcadia,
Tears for Fears,
Jerry's Kids,
Model 500,
The Fire Engines,
Negative Approach,
Eli Mardock,
Severed Heads,
The Star Department,
Big Daddy Kane,
Neu!,
Zapp,
Ronnie Foster,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sonics,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hashim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
B.T. Express,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soul II Soul,
Matthew Halsall,
Supertramp,
Second Layer,
Joe Finger,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thompson Twins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jesper Dahlback,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Erasure,
Cybotron,
Tomorrow,
Livin' Joy,
The Slits,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobby Hutcherson,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.