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 Ukraine and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba 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 Toni Rubio to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Slits. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Severed Heads,
Fat Boys,
Minor Threat,
The Knickerbockers,
The Walker Brothers,
The Victims,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Standells,
Fatback Band,
Faust,
Lou Reed,
Sugar Minott,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Skatalites,
New Order,
June of 44,
Mars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
L. Decosne,
Crash Course in Science,
The Modern Lovers,
Jawbox,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
10cc,
Chrome,
The Slackers,
Scratch Acid,
Ronan,
Depeche Mode,
Desert Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Fela Kuti,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Monochrome Set,
Icehouse,
Ituana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Silicon Teens,
Delon & Dalcan,
Livin' Joy,
Sound Behaviour,
FM Einheit,
Harry Pussy,
Ohio Players,
The Associates,
Easy Going,
Rites of Spring,
The Cramps,
Pylon,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
Das Ding,
Fluxion,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yazoo,
Amazonics,
Drexciya,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.