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 Poland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Newcleus to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Skarface,
Stereo Dub,
Fear,
Al Stewart,
Kerrie Biddell,
Black Bananas,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Donny Hathaway,
The American Breed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q65,
The Stooges,
Siglo XX,
Harry Pussy,
Ralphi Rosario,
L. Decosne,
The Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jeff Lynne,
The Gun Club,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smoke,
KRS-One,
Steve Hackett,
Altered Images,
Dave Gahan,
The Happenings,
Gang of Four,
the Bar-Kays,
Isaac Hayes,
Juan Atkins,
Black Flag,
Leonard Cohen,
Scan 7,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Womack,
Kaleidoscope,
Lyres,
The Modern Lovers,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Harmonia,
Peter and Kerry,
Roger Hodgson,
The Trojans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tears for Fears,
Lower 48,
The Divine Comedy,
David Axelrod,
Lindisfarne,
Basic Channel,
Funky Four + One,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.