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 Chile and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Gories to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Zero Boys,
Pagans,
Sam Rivers,
Average White Band,
Skriet,
F. McDonald,
Marmalade,
Dave Gahan,
June Days,
Make Up,
Donald Byrd,
Sällskapet,
Radio Birdman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lyres,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter and Kerry,
The Real Kids,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rapeman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grauzone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masters at Work,
Roy Ayers,
Andrew Hill,
One Last Wish,
Lungfish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DJ Style,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Velvet Underground,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Robert Görl,
The Smoke,
Connie Case,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lou Reed,
Slave,
The Buckinghams,
Ice-T,
Harmonia,
Nick Fraelich,
Crispy Ambulance,
Prince Buster,
Yusef Lateef,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alphaville,
Subhumans,
Technova,
Motorama,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arab on Radar,
Alice Coltrane,
Procol Harum,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Standells,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.