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 Korea North and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Mandrill to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Soft Machine,
Graham Central Station,
The Toasters,
Blossom Toes,
Dennis Brown,
Audionom,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
L. Decosne,
Scion,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Electric Prunes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wally Richardson,
Depeche Mode,
The Red Krayola,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lyres,
Scrapy,
This Heat,
Mr. Review,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Knickerbockers,
The Litter,
John Lydon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Organ,
Jandek,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Slits,
A Certain Ratio,
Skaos,
Chrome,
Yusef Lateef,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funkadelic,
The Real Kids,
Susan Cadogan,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oneida,
The Leaves,
Qualms,
The Five Americans,
Young Marble Giants,
Lalann,
Q and Not U,
Barry Ungar,
Camouflage,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
Skriet,
DJ Style,
Intrusion,
Rod Modell,
The Martian,
FM Einheit,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.