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 Nepal and from Portland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Technova to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
The Gladiators,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Smog,
Young Marble Giants,
Leonard Cohen,
Nico,
Radiohead,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Robert Görl,
Hoover,
The Slackers,
Sight & Sound,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
Harry Pussy,
Bob Dylan,
Cecil Taylor,
Laurel Aitken,
Skarface,
Juan Atkins,
48th St. Collective,
Massinfluence,
Barbara Tucker,
The Motions,
Infiniti,
Robert Wyatt,
Ice-T,
The Modern Lovers,
Kas Product,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Donny Hathaway,
Ronan,
Nirvana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Busters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Chrome,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Seeds,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Beau Brummels,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Aloha Tigers,
Rites of Spring,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delta 5,
MDC,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bobby Sherman,
Negative Approach,
China Crisis,
Marc Almond,
The Last Poets,
The Knickerbockers,
Pussy Galore,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.