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 Armenia and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Moebius to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
kango's stein massive,
Quadrant,
Funky Four + One,
Groovy Waters,
Alton Ellis,
Massinfluence,
Roxette,
T.S.O.L.,
Yusef Lateef,
Rakim,
The Index,
the Human League,
Newcleus,
Zero Boys,
Jeru the Damaja,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ohio Players,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Sonics,
Motorama,
Royal Trux,
Sonic Youth,
Negative Approach,
Lindisfarne,
Bush Tetras,
Aloha Tigers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Spoonie Gee,
The Selecter,
The Gladiators,
Scrapy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
Bill Near,
Mary Jane Girls,
Siglo XX,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eric B and Rakim,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
China Crisis,
Chrome,
Tears for Fears,
Sun City Girls,
Josef K,
Rosa Yemen,
PIL,
Outsiders,
Moss Icon,
Fad Gadget,
Ossler,
The Residents,
Soft Cell,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
ABBA,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.