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 Romania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 spring reverb 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 Bill Near to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Black Moon,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
Rotary Connection,
Piero Umiliani,
Yellowson,
The Trojans,
Janne Schatter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delon & Dalcan,
U.S. Maple,
Peter and Kerry,
Absolute Body Control,
Ten City,
Television,
Cecil Taylor,
Reagan Youth,
Trumans Water,
Delta 5,
The Searchers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
Michelle Simonal,
Minnie Riperton,
Grandmaster Flash,
Technova,
Heaven 17,
Lucky Dragons,
The Grass Roots,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
Altered Images,
Faust,
Eric B and Rakim,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Mummies,
Kaleidoscope,
Essential Logic,
Dave Gahan,
L. Decosne,
Alton Ellis,
Johnny Clarke,
These Immortal Souls,
China Crisis,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
The Blues Magoos,
Fad Gadget,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Cramps,
Inner City,
the Slits,
FM Einheit,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pierre Henry,
Audionom,
R.M.O.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.