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 Congo and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ 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 Black Pus to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Warren Ellis,
Reagan Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Lalo Schifrin,
James White and The Blacks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Evens,
Bobby Womack,
Jeff Lynne,
Tubeway Army,
Scan 7,
Alice Coltrane,
Hardrive,
Peter & Gordon,
Basic Channel,
The Sound,
Sound Behaviour,
The Birthday Party,
Moebius,
The Leaves,
Brass Construction,
Niagra,
The Moleskins,
The J.B.'s,
Sugar Minott,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Byron Stingily,
The Buckinghams,
Japan,
The Last Poets,
Aaron Thompson,
Cal Tjader,
Crispy Ambulance,
Man Parrish,
Heaven 17,
The Human League,
Fluxion,
The United States of America,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Donald Byrd,
Agent Orange,
The New Christs,
Jawbox,
Derrick Morgan,
Freddie Wadling,
Maleditus Sound,
Blossom Toes,
Neu!,
Half Japanese,
The Offenders,
Ornette Coleman,
The Walker Brothers,
Electric Prunes,
Newcleus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Move,
Carl Craig,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.