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 Philadelphia.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Audionom 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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Main Source,
The Misunderstood,
Yellowson,
Arthur Verocai,
Tres Demented,
Au Pairs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sparks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scratch Acid,
David Bowie,
The Evens,
Bootsy Collins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lalann,
Icehouse,
Robert Görl,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kayak,
K-Klass,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare,
Scrapy,
Gang of Four,
Quadrant,
The Real Kids,
Bobby Byrd,
Malaria!,
Television,
Urselle,
Althea and Donna,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül,
Funkadelic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiohead,
Pulsallama,
Man Parrish,
Schoolly D,
Yazoo,
Bobby Womack,
Amon Düül II,
Gichy Dan,
Carl Craig,
Easy Going,
the Sonics,
Swell Maps,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soft Cell,
ABBA,
Wally Richardson,
Pantytec,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Accadde A,
Jimmy McGriff,
Parry Music,
Boz Scaggs,
Bronski Beat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.