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 Cambodia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Zapp to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Icehouse,
The Tremeloes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bill Wells,
Mantronix,
Kas Product,
Bobby Womack,
Patti Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
The Seeds,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lalo Schifrin,
Henry Cow,
Guru Guru,
New Age Steppers,
Andrew Hill,
Trumans Water,
Eric B and Rakim,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amon Düül,
The Knickerbockers,
Boredoms,
Marine Girls,
Spandau Ballet,
The Associates,
Lalann,
Hardrive,
Simply Red,
Skriet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arab on Radar,
Faraquet,
the Germs,
Pulsallama,
Bobby Sherman,
Audionom,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Delta 5,
Dead Boys,
Kayak,
The Velvet Underground,
Eddi Front,
Dual Sessions,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tears for Fears,
Ludus,
Dave Gahan,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Görl,
John Cale,
Japan,
Ice-T,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.