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 Vietnam and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ 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 Agent Orange to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Darondo,
Dual Sessions,
The Index,
Joe Smooth,
Goldenarms,
Loose Ends,
Erasure,
Main Source,
James White and The Blacks,
Tim Buckley,
Inner City,
Marc Almond,
The Tremeloes,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
Pole,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Reagan Youth,
The Slits,
the Bar-Kays,
Monolake,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Traffic Nightmare,
Von Mondo,
Vainqueur,
Sonic Youth,
Franke,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
X-Ray Spex,
The Modern Lovers,
JFA,
Camberwell Now,
David Bowie,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Slackers,
Urselle,
Rod Modell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ralphi Rosario,
Idris Muhammad,
Magma,
Organ,
Cecil Taylor,
Theoretical Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Avey Tare,
The Victims,
The Gap Band,
Marvin Gaye,
David McCallum,
Moby Grape,
Chris Corsano,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bobby Sherman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.