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 Poland and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
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 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 Vladislav Delay to the rock 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Fear,
The Blackbyrds,
OOIOO,
Marmalade,
Marine Girls,
Avey Tare,
Freddie Wadling,
Scott Walker,
The Wake,
PIL,
8 Eyed Spy,
Siglo XX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Derrick May,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nils Olav,
Dave Gahan,
Sixth Finger,
Howard Jones,
Eurythmics,
Dawn Penn,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris Corsano,
Urselle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nico,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jacob Miller,
The Smoke,
Blancmange,
Pylon,
Kaleidoscope,
Tropical Tobacco,
Massinfluence,
Depeche Mode,
The Moody Blues,
Whodini,
Scientists,
Roxette,
Sister Nancy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mandrill,
The Star Department,
Lyres,
Adolescents,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Index,
The Dead C,
Aloha Tigers,
Eve St. Jones,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wire,
The Electric Prunes,
Q65,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.