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 Senegal and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Joe Finger to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Marvin Gaye,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camouflage,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scratch Acid,
cv313,
Agent Orange,
the Bar-Kays,
David McCallum,
These Immortal Souls,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eurythmics,
Youth Brigade,
The Human League,
The Angels of Light,
Roger Hodgson,
The Evens,
The Victims,
Average White Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Das Ding,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zero Boys,
The Trojans,
The Associates,
PIL,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Little Man,
MC5,
Underground Resistance,
The Invisible,
Altered Images,
Country Teasers,
Skaos,
Inner City,
The Gladiators,
Alice Coltrane,
The Techniques,
The Music Machine,
Pylon,
Shoche,
Unrelated Segments,
The Red Krayola,
Pulsallama,
Agitation Free,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Wake,
Young Marble Giants,
Tom Boy,
Swans,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lee Hazlewood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lightning Bolt,
The Stooges,
The Misunderstood,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.