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 Kiribati and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 a-ha to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Drexciya,
Basic Channel,
Youth Brigade,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonic Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mr. Review,
Peter & Gordon,
The Gladiators,
The Count Five,
Average White Band,
Hoover,
Joe Smooth,
June Days,
Moss Icon,
The Saints,
Andrew Hill,
Archie Shepp,
Deakin,
The Blues Magoos,
Quadrant,
Graham Central Station,
Massinfluence,
Wolf Eyes,
The Tremeloes,
Sugar Minott,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dark Day,
The Buckinghams,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Skatalites,
Byron Stingily,
Subhumans,
Outsiders,
Visage,
FM Einheit,
Lightning Bolt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ornette Coleman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roger Hodgson,
Audionom,
The Gories,
ABC,
Altered Images,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Piero Umiliani,
Lucky Dragons,
the Human League,
Model 500,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.