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 Cambodia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ralphi Rosario,
Inner City,
FM Einheit,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nation of Ulysses,
Trumans Water,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tears for Fears,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rod Modell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Excepter,
The Selecter,
Aaron Thompson,
Skriet,
Royal Trux,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nils Olav,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
One Last Wish,
Ornette Coleman,
Johnny Clarke,
Blancmange,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Darondo,
Jerry's Kids,
Albert Ayler,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Maleditus Sound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sparks,
Joy Division,
Bobby Byrd,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Wyatt,
LL Cool J,
Adolescents,
Smog,
Monolake,
Terrestrial Tones,
Roxy Music,
Sonic Youth,
Pulsallama,
Rapeman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Buzzcocks,
Hasil Adkins,
Stereo Dub,
Dark Day,
Intrusion,
The Sound,
Connie Case,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Golliwogs,
Panda Bear,
Vladislav Delay,
The Standells,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.