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 Barbados and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dark Day to the crunk 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Graham Central Station,
Qualms,
Jacques Brel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Derrick Morgan,
Sound Behaviour,
Tears for Fears,
Ultravox,
Country Teasers,
Lakeside,
Hasil Adkins,
Scan 7,
Lyres,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blake Baxter,
Bush Tetras,
Chris Corsano,
Lungfish,
ABBA,
Lower 48,
Dual Sessions,
Ten City,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sparks,
Massinfluence,
Jesper Dahlback,
Michelle Simonal,
Reagan Youth,
Pagans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Matthew Bourne,
Minor Threat,
Erasure,
Moby Grape,
Fat Boys,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Agent Orange,
Judy Mowatt,
Joy Division,
Chris & Cosey,
Quantec,
The Young Rascals,
Juan Atkins,
Half Japanese,
Negative Approach,
Black Moon,
Duran Duran,
Grauzone,
Buzzcocks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
UT,
The Blues Magoos,
Dark Day,
the Normal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Associates,
Barbara Tucker,
Stiv Bators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.