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 Poland and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes 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 Gregory Isaacs to the rock 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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 Victims,
Lee Hazlewood,
UT,
Swell Maps,
The Durutti Column,
Hardrive,
Marmalade,
Flash Fearless,
H. Thieme,
10cc,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ronan,
The Index,
Model 500,
Vainqueur,
Gong,
Sonic Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
Deepchord,
Todd Terry,
The Gladiators,
The Slits,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stereo Dub,
Hot Snakes,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Surgeon,
ABC,
Section 25,
Guru Guru,
Alison Limerick,
Qualms,
Tomorrow,
The Residents,
X-Ray Spex,
Altered Images,
Todd Rundgren,
LL Cool J,
Jandek,
These Immortal Souls,
Judy Mowatt,
Peter and Kerry,
Suburban Knight,
Crash Course in Science,
Agitation Free,
Janne Schatter,
Metal Thangz,
Vladislav Delay,
The Doobie Brothers,
Motorama,
Danielle Patucci,
Boz Scaggs,
Quando Quango,
Popol Vuh,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.