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 Costa Rica and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Masters at Work to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
MC5,
Kayak,
The Shadows of Knight,
Agitation Free,
Dark Day,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dave Gahan,
L. Decosne,
R.M.O.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funky Four + One,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
8 Eyed Spy,
June Days,
The Last Poets,
Radio Birdman,
Duran Duran,
Japan,
Make Up,
La Düsseldorf,
Dennis Brown,
Tears for Fears,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Schoolly D,
Minnie Riperton,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Jeff Lynne,
Das Ding,
Loose Ends,
Mo-Dettes,
Terry Callier,
Black Pus,
Joensuu 1685,
Isaac Hayes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sixth Finger,
Eli Mardock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Absolute Body Control,
the Association,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ronan,
Donny Hathaway,
Quantec,
U.S. Maple,
Sällskapet,
The Slits,
B.T. Express,
Mad Mike,
Eurythmics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.