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 Laos and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 the Soft Cell to the punk 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fat Boys,
Mantronix,
Deakin,
Spoonie Gee,
Panda Bear,
Peter and Kerry,
Motorama,
Procol Harum,
Sunsets and Hearts,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantytec,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Heaven 17,
Half Japanese,
Chris Corsano,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Smog,
Stetsasonic,
This Heat,
Radio Birdman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Human League,
Harpers Bizarre,
Peter & Gordon,
Accadde A,
Junior Murvin,
Camouflage,
Aloha Tigers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anakelly,
Bobby Womack,
Scion,
Swans,
L. Decosne,
Erykah Badu,
Thee Headcoats,
Connie Case,
Soft Cell,
Davy DMX,
Grey Daturas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Derrick Morgan,
Idris Muhammad,
Thompson Twins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Sheep,
Wasted Youth,
The Alarm Clocks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skaos,
Visage,
10cc,
Nils Olav,
H. Thieme,
Janne Schatter,
Minor Threat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shuggie Otis,
Silicon Teens,
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.