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 Jordan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
John Holt,
X-Ray Spex,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tomorrow,
Parry Music,
Patti Smith,
MDC,
Prince Buster,
Reagan Youth,
Black Flag,
The Names,
The Raincoats,
JFA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joyce Sims,
Schoolly D,
Sparks,
Radiohead,
Icehouse,
Faraquet,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eddi Front,
The Offenders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blancmange,
Brothers Johnson,
La Düsseldorf,
kango's stein massive,
David McCallum,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Swell Maps,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Q65,
Donny Hathaway,
Mandrill,
the Bar-Kays,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Unrelated Segments,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Skriet,
Absolute Body Control,
Soft Cell,
Spoonie Gee,
The Pop Group,
Magma,
Liliput,
Das Ding,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ituana,
Nas,
Vladislav Delay,
Radio Birdman,
The Young Rascals,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.