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 Botswana and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro 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 Whodini to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Erykah Badu,
Altered Images,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Average White Band,
Los Fastidios,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ronan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ultra Naté,
Monolake,
Kerri Chandler,
Spoonie Gee,
Byron Stingily,
Roxette,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Max Romeo,
The Fall,
Ossler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pole,
Sparks,
Jacques Brel,
Bauhaus,
Smog,
La Düsseldorf,
June Days,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scion,
Sandy B,
Fatback Band,
New Order,
Brass Construction,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dawn Penn,
The American Breed,
Wasted Youth,
FM Einheit,
the Swans,
Cheater Slicks,
Letta Mbulu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
8 Eyed Spy,
MC5,
Chrome,
Prince Buster,
Das Ding,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Essential Logic,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.