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 Qatar and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jacob Miller to the electroclash 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Tears for Fears,
Dark Day,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rufus Thomas,
Zero Boys,
Niagra,
James White and The Blacks,
Bad Manners,
Mars,
Joe Finger,
The Slits,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cal Tjader,
A Certain Ratio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
Nils Olav,
Nick Fraelich,
Sam Rivers,
Gichy Dan,
Japan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Von Mondo,
Alphaville,
The Mojo Men,
Thompson Twins,
Skaos,
Simply Red,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aswad,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kenny Larkin,
Section 25,
Erasure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Y Pants,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sällskapet,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Blake Baxter,
Suicide,
Lower 48,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Howard Jones,
Underground Resistance,
Shuggie Otis,
Pantaleimon,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slackers,
Brick,
Black Pus,
LL Cool J,
Unwound,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Hood,
Smog,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.