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 Palau and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin 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 Warsaw to the funk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
The Monochrome Set,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nirvana,
Eve St. Jones,
Derrick Morgan,
Tubeway Army,
Neil Young,
John Foxx,
The Count Five,
Rapeman,
Ornette Coleman,
Fugazi,
Al Stewart,
Erasure,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Moss Icon,
The Selecter,
Graham Central Station,
Roxette,
The Happenings,
The J.B.'s,
Pagans,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Motorama,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minutemen,
Tommy Roe,
L. Decosne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marine Girls,
Deepchord,
R.M.O.,
Godley & Creme,
Echospace,
Half Japanese,
A Certain Ratio,
Minor Threat,
Gerry Rafferty,
T.S.O.L.,
Scion,
Ossler,
Japan,
Talk Talk,
Crooked Eye,
PIL,
Harpers Bizarre,
Whodini,
Zapp,
Khruangbin,
Unrelated Segments,
Television Personalities,
Crash Course in Science,
The Slackers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Inner City,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ice-T,
Electric Prunes,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.