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 Vietnam and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Magma to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
The J.B.'s,
Morten Harket,
MC5,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gladiators,
James White and The Blacks,
Basic Channel,
Nirvana,
U.S. Maple,
Bill Near,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mandrill,
Agent Orange,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lungfish,
Quantec,
Animal Collective,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Josef K,
The Velvet Underground,
Nas,
Porter Ricks,
Darondo,
The Neon Judgement,
The Skatalites,
Delta 5,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rufus Thomas,
Harpers Bizarre,
Piero Umiliani,
Half Japanese,
Nik Kershaw,
New Age Steppers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ice-T,
Young Marble Giants,
Rosa Yemen,
The Misunderstood,
Grandmaster Flash,
Talk Talk,
The American Breed,
D'Angelo,
The Evens,
Glambeats Corp.,
Silicon Teens,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gories,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aural Exciters,
Wally Richardson,
Organ,
The Fortunes,
The Vogues,
Dual Sessions,
Negative Approach,
Fugazi,
Skaos,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.