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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Crooked Eye to the rap 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABBA,
Juan Atkins,
Warsaw,
Scan 7,
the Human League,
Quantec,
Roxette,
The Vogues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-102,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bush Tetras,
Intrusion,
Bobby Byrd,
Au Pairs,
Kurtis Blow,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Swans,
Depeche Mode,
Suburban Knight,
The Moody Blues,
Brothers Johnson,
Oneida,
Lalann,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lightning Bolt,
Pagans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Litter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Fuzztones,
The Wake,
The Human League,
The Cramps,
The Flesh Eaters,
The American Breed,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Electric Prunes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Inner City,
Scientists,
Essential Logic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ronan,
Aswad,
Peter & Gordon,
DJ Style,
Sister Nancy,
The Sound,
Vladislav Delay,
The Birthday Party,
La Düsseldorf,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.