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 Laos and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Pet Shop Boys 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
X-Ray Spex,
Black Flag,
Goldenarms,
Iggy Pop,
Susan Cadogan,
Ultravox,
Liliput,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sugar Minott,
Motorama,
The Fortunes,
Gang of Four,
DNA,
Intrusion,
Altered Images,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Moebius,
F. McDonald,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scrapy,
Idris Muhammad,
Brick,
Mantronix,
The Pretty Things,
Wolf Eyes,
Pierre Henry,
Sällskapet,
Roxy Music,
New Order,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kaleidoscope,
Johnny Osbourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Human League,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Human League,
Steve Hackett,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kerri Chandler,
Suburban Knight,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Blancmange,
Juan Atkins,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jerry's Kids,
DJ Sneak,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Zero Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
Wally Richardson,
JFA,
Grauzone,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June Days,
The Divine Comedy,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.