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 Lithuania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Nico to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Procol Harum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythm & Sound,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pierre Henry,
Crash Course in Science,
Mo-Dettes,
Basic Channel,
K-Klass,
Swell Maps,
Franke,
Masters at Work,
Television Personalities,
Bronski Beat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aural Exciters,
Quando Quango,
Porter Ricks,
Robert Hood,
The Neon Judgement,
Steve Hackett,
One Last Wish,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Radio Birdman,
James White and The Blacks,
Soul II Soul,
Funkadelic,
Scrapy,
Ronnie Foster,
Ituana,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sun Ra,
Sam Rivers,
Panda Bear,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aaron Thompson,
Joy Division,
Little Man,
Gang Green,
New York Dolls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Human League,
The Cowsills,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wolf Eyes,
Kerri Chandler,
Drexciya,
the Slits,
Ice-T,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cure,
Don Cherry,
Gabor Szabo,
Supertramp,
Cabaret Voltaire,
48th St. Collective,
Black Sheep,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.