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 Cameroon and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bauhaus to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Essential Logic,
Howard Jones,
Kenny Larkin,
UT,
Section 25,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alphaville,
Siglo XX,
Glenn Branca,
The Star Department,
Wire,
Piero Umiliani,
Derrick Morgan,
Nils Olav,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Audionom,
MDC,
Morten Harket,
Drexciya,
the Swans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pagans,
Oblivians,
Jeff Lynne,
Eurythmics,
Joe Smooth,
The Slackers,
Simply Red,
The Golliwogs,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Wyatt,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Selecter,
Bronski Beat,
Ponytail,
Ossler,
Graham Central Station,
Moss Icon,
Underground Resistance,
Leonard Cohen,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Christie,
Circle Jerks,
Mark Hollis,
Kurtis Blow,
Cameo,
Gichy Dan,
Television Personalities,
the Slits,
The Cramps,
Warsaw,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scientists,
Joy Division,
Trumans Water,
Desert Stars,
Half Japanese,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Danielle Patucci,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.