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 Fiji and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kerrie Biddell to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Peter and Kerry,
Ossler,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Mr. Review,
Electric Prunes,
Ten City,
Pantytec,
the Normal,
Letta Mbulu,
Gabor Szabo,
The Skatalites,
Radiohead,
Silicon Teens,
Sun Ra,
Kaleidoscope,
Joensuu 1685,
The Monochrome Set,
Japan,
Toni Rubio,
The Happenings,
Curtis Mayfield,
New Age Steppers,
KRS-One,
Marine Girls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aswad,
Spandau Ballet,
Babytalk,
Little Man,
The Zeros,
Reuben Wilson,
Ice-T,
Talk Talk,
Fatback Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cymande,
Lindisfarne,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lalann,
Zapp,
Mad Mike,
The Blackbyrds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Electric Prunes,
The Index,
Neu!,
Bobby Sherman,
Con Funk Shun,
Tom Boy,
The Pop Group,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marvin Gaye,
FM Einheit,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Gang Dance,
Massinfluence,
The Doobie Brothers,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.