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 Maldives and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Magazine to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
D'Angelo,
Popol Vuh,
Stetsasonic,
Slick Rick,
The Gladiators,
Robert Görl,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Remains,
The Cowsills,
Agitation Free,
the Association,
Excepter,
Television Personalities,
The Count Five,
Warsaw,
Banda Bassotti,
Delta 5,
The Martian,
Joe Finger,
Mo-Dettes,
Derrick Morgan,
Marc Almond,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eddi Front,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul II Soul,
John Cale,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bluetip,
New Age Steppers,
Lindisfarne,
Crooked Eye,
The Black Dice,
Sixth Finger,
Fad Gadget,
Brass Construction,
Moby Grape,
The Walker Brothers,
The Names,
Bobby Byrd,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joy Division,
The Barracudas,
Leonard Cohen,
The Evens,
Television,
Unrelated Segments,
Hasil Adkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Index,
The Leaves,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Organ,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cameo,
Peter & Gordon,
The Standells,
Oneida,
The Index,
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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.