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 Brunei and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Scott Walker to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marmalade,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gabor Szabo,
Albert Ayler,
Gichy Dan,
Duran Duran,
Dave Gahan,
Q and Not U,
Terrestrial Tones,
Section 25,
Joe Smooth,
Eric Copeland,
Erykah Badu,
FM Einheit,
Electric Light Orchestra,
OOIOO,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wolf Eyes,
The Electric Prunes,
Sun Ra,
Niagra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kerri Chandler,
Mantronix,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Trumans Water,
Livin' Joy,
Nils Olav,
The Beau Brummels,
Wings,
Joey Negro,
Technova,
Wire,
Alphaville,
DJ Style,
Television,
Stockholm Monsters,
Con Funk Shun,
Crooked Eye,
Blossom Toes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anakelly,
Susan Cadogan,
Masters at Work,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Buckinghams,
The Martian,
Sister Nancy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rotary Connection,
Yusef Lateef,
The Cramps,
Goldenarms,
Scientists,
Kaleidoscope,
Cymande,
This Heat,
the Human League,
Cheater Slicks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.