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 Lebanon and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Howard Jones to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone 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 techno 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Au Pairs,
The Buckinghams,
Amon Düül,
Slick Rick,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Pretty Things,
Isaac Hayes,
The Names,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Offenders,
Inner City,
Babytalk,
Letta Mbulu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Technova,
Frankie Knuckles,
Andrew Hill,
Warsaw,
Wolf Eyes,
Josef K,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiohead,
The Young Rascals,
Hasil Adkins,
Pylon,
Michelle Simonal,
The Litter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Don Cherry,
The Sonics,
The Knickerbockers,
Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nils Olav,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joyce Sims,
Funky Four + One,
Loose Ends,
The Velvet Underground,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Cowsills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bauhaus,
Excepter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bang On A Can,
D'Angelo,
Dark Day,
Archie Shepp,
Guru Guru,
Robert Wyatt,
Neil Young,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.