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 Bangladesh and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hoover,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Sheep,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kool Moe Dee,
World's Most,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
L. Decosne,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fortunes,
Dave Gahan,
The Motions,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeru the Damaja,
Oblivians,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Germs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Minnie Riperton,
Urselle,
Ken Boothe,
Tomorrow,
The Blackbyrds,
Lou Christie,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nico,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Michelle Simonal,
Spandau Ballet,
Mission of Burma,
Lalann,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rakim,
The Moody Blues,
Intrusion,
Fluxion,
The Fire Engines,
Byron Stingily,
Saccharine Trust,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
Deadbeat,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Funkadelic,
a-ha,
the Association,
Brand Nubian,
The Leaves,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.