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 Denmark and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cybotron to the dance 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tres Demented,
Arthur Verocai,
Jerry's Kids,
Skarface,
Dual Sessions,
Niagra,
Mad Mike,
Blancmange,
Joe Finger,
Subhumans,
Matthew Bourne,
Groovy Waters,
The Trojans,
The Young Rascals,
Fela Kuti,
These Immortal Souls,
Jeff Mills,
Nirvana,
John Lydon,
Vainqueur,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Barracudas,
Guru Guru,
Ten City,
Roy Ayers,
The Standells,
Chrome,
Big Daddy Kane,
Easy Going,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stereo Dub,
Swans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kayak,
Country Teasers,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Hood,
This Heat,
Rotary Connection,
The Techniques,
Vladislav Delay,
Eli Mardock,
Half Japanese,
Bronski Beat,
a-ha,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Victims,
MC5,
Ossler,
The Mummies,
Khruangbin,
Absolute Body Control,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joe Smooth,
Japan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.