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 Maldives and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the electroclash 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Bobby Byrd,
Half Japanese,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Laurel Aitken,
Scan 7,
Spoonie Gee,
Grandmaster Flash,
Radiohead,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Essential Logic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Whodini,
Hashim,
Deakin,
CMW,
Soulsonic Force,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cheater Slicks,
R.M.O.,
Nico,
KRS-One,
Model 500,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Isaac Hayes,
Sun Ra,
Basic Channel,
Roxy Music,
The Kinks,
The Victims,
The Cowsills,
Ossler,
Harmonia,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Parry Music,
Fad Gadget,
Sound Behaviour,
The Busters,
Grey Daturas,
Average White Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rod Modell,
The Residents,
The American Breed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yusef Lateef,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Janne Schatter,
The Names,
The Human League,
Ituana,
Kaleidoscope,
China Crisis,
Bronski Beat,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dark Day,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.