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 Lesotho and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alphaville to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
OOIOO,
Bush Tetras,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Main Source,
Accadde A,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fatback Band,
Kenny Larkin,
The Tremeloes,
Peter & Gordon,
In Retrospect,
New Age Steppers,
Fluxion,
Excepter,
Fear,
Sugar Minott,
Sandy B,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nas,
Duran Duran,
Saccharine Trust,
Bad Manners,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Little Man,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Anakelly,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Womack,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
X-101,
Icehouse,
X-Ray Spex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Outsiders,
One Last Wish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sonics,
L. Decosne,
Eden Ahbez,
CMW,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Terry Callier,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aswad,
The Busters,
The Gap Band,
Joe Smooth,
Jawbox,
The Young Rascals,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Smiths,
Banda Bassotti,
Lalann,
Whodini,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Shoche,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.