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 Finland and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Circle Jerks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Loose Ends,
Flash Fearless,
Sam Rivers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Black Dice,
Swell Maps,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nils Olav,
Gang Starr,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marc Almond,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalann,
Lou Christie,
Warsaw,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Trumans Water,
Zapp,
Reuben Wilson,
Boz Scaggs,
Erykah Badu,
Zero Boys,
The Litter,
Qualms,
Supertramp,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mission of Burma,
Nirvana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Durutti Column,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sound Behaviour,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
La Düsseldorf,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dead Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Niagra,
MC5,
Swans,
Little Man,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joe Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Bronski Beat,
Howard Jones,
Shuggie Otis,
Ohio Players,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy 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.