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 Thailand and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Monochrome Set to the punk 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Grey Daturas,
Kayak,
48th St. Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joey Negro,
Lalann,
Lalo Schifrin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bang On A Can,
Archie Shepp,
FM Einheit,
Bad Manners,
a-ha,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cheater Slicks,
Moby Grape,
Skaos,
the Human League,
Roy Ayers,
Niagra,
Blancmange,
The Litter,
The Angels of Light,
Ultravox,
Lyres,
Faust,
Zapp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mummies,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gories,
Rekid,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Colin Newman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sister Nancy,
Scan 7,
Gang of Four,
Joe Smooth,
Juan Atkins,
Gang Green,
The Zeros,
Kaleidoscope,
Accadde A,
Deakin,
Soulsonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
UT,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
L. Decosne,
The Dirtbombs,
China Crisis,
Erasure,
The Moleskins,
Black Flag,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dual Sessions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.