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 Philippines and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rufus Thomas,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Star Department,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wally Richardson,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Music Machine,
Dawn Penn,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soulsonic Force,
The Offenders,
The Kinks,
JFA,
This Heat,
The Seeds,
Sonic Youth,
John Holt,
David Axelrod,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Suicide,
The Cowsills,
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Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Drexciya,
Boredoms,
The Young Rascals,
The Fall,
Funky Four + One,
Reuben Wilson,
Godley & Creme,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Skarface,
The Modern Lovers,
The Happenings,
Max Romeo,
Trumans Water,
Masters at Work,
Loose Ends,
Amon Düül II,
Gang Starr,
Harmonia,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minutemen,
Agent Orange,
Laurel Aitken,
Yazoo,
Danielle Patucci,
Dennis Brown,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Inner City,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Faraquet,
Frankie Knuckles,
Saccharine Trust,
H. Thieme,
Todd Rundgren,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fad Gadget,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.