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 Netherlands and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Little Man to the techno 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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Yazoo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Massinfluence,
Johnny Osbourne,
Easy Going,
U.S. Maple,
X-Ray Spex,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Whodini,
Alton Ellis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Procol Harum,
The Saints,
the Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
JFA,
Drive Like Jehu,
Morten Harket,
These Immortal Souls,
Iggy Pop,
Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Knickerbockers,
Sparks,
David McCallum,
Ituana,
Kurtis Blow,
the Sonics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cameo,
The Star Department,
Andrew Hill,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lakeside,
Eric Copeland,
Gastr Del Sol,
China Crisis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
DJ Style,
Monks,
Wolf Eyes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bob Dylan,
Fad Gadget,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dual Sessions,
Sun City Girls,
Monolake,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Raincoats,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.