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 Malaysia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Warren Ellis to the punk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
DJ Style,
Roxy Music,
The Fire Engines,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Throbbing Gristle,
Derrick Morgan,
The Monks,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Saints,
Deepchord,
The Happenings,
Kaleidoscope,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joy Division,
ABC,
John Foxx,
Ossler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cal Tjader,
Maurizio,
Sex Pistols,
Hardrive,
Judy Mowatt,
Angry Samoans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lungfish,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter and Kerry,
Bush Tetras,
Television Personalities,
The Gap Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Crime,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smoke,
The Slackers,
Livin' Joy,
Altered Images,
The Invisible,
Brass Construction,
H. Thieme,
Kenny Larkin,
Stiv Bators,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Moebius,
Banda Bassotti,
The Cowsills,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
Los Fastidios,
Sight & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
Amazonics,
Goldenarms,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.