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 Mexico and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Shuggie Otis to the techno 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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Gregory Isaacs,
Andrew Hill,
Soft Cell,
Rapeman,
T. Rex,
Monks,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
Minny Pops,
Radiohead,
Monolake,
Yellowson,
Scratch Acid,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Fad Gadget,
Japan,
Icehouse,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Barracudas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pierre Henry,
Cameo,
Infiniti,
Accadde A,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Negative Approach,
The Vogues,
Drexciya,
Bobby Sherman,
Robert Görl,
Sällskapet,
Blake Baxter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Half Japanese,
Skarface,
Crime,
The Kinks,
Sarah Menescal,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fire Engines,
Ohio Players,
Second Layer,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Hashim,
Wolf Eyes,
Groovy Waters,
10cc,
Prince Buster,
Boredoms,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
Fat Boys,
Grauzone,
Brass Construction,
Dennis Brown,
New York Dolls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.