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 Malawi and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mighty Diamonds to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Malaria!,
Judy Mowatt,
Organ,
Outsiders,
Zero Boys,
Sällskapet,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Kinks,
Desert Stars,
10cc,
Talk Talk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Grauzone,
Kenny Larkin,
Laurel Aitken,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gil Scott Heron,
Technova,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-Ray Spex,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gap Band,
Dual Sessions,
Alphaville,
Monks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Godley & Creme,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Average White Band,
48th St. Collective,
Easy Going,
Soulsonic Force,
Smog,
Q and Not U,
E-Dancer,
The Skatalites,
Davy DMX,
Dark Day,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joey Negro,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soft Machine,
The Wake,
Nirvana,
T.S.O.L.,
Glenn Branca,
Saccharine Trust,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Maleditus Sound,
Neu!,
The Divine Comedy,
UT,
cv313,
Roxy Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Cybotron,
Masters at Work,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.