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 Argentina and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe 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 New Age Steppers to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
The Human League,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
Gang Green,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Royal Trux,
Reagan Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yellowson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Scientists,
LL Cool J,
The Gories,
Traffic Nightmare,
In Retrospect,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Das Ding,
Y Pants,
Anakelly,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joey Negro,
Chris Corsano,
Outsiders,
Alphaville,
Sällskapet,
Alice Coltrane,
the Normal,
Index,
Stiv Bators,
Pole,
Hot Snakes,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fuzztones,
Sun City Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Foxx,
Skarface,
Mantronix,
Pantytec,
X-Ray Spex,
Camouflage,
Soft Cell,
Grauzone,
Smog,
Section 25,
Altered Images,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eric Copeland,
The Modern Lovers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Blues Magoos,
Junior Murvin,
Godley & Creme,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.