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 Australia and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Mantronix,
Chris & Cosey,
Eddi Front,
Lightning Bolt,
X-101,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Freddie Wadling,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Names,
Simply Red,
Youth Brigade,
Public Enemy,
Hashim,
The Dirtbombs,
Soft Machine,
The Gories,
Urselle,
John Holt,
Aaron Thompson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Visage,
La Düsseldorf,
Eric Copeland,
Warsaw,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang Gang Dance,
Zero Boys,
Morten Harket,
Symarip,
Nik Kershaw,
Black Flag,
Cameo,
H. Thieme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sight & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Alison Limerick,
Gabor Szabo,
Metal Thangz,
Negative Approach,
Crime,
Babytalk,
ABC,
The Fortunes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerrie Biddell,
Buzzcocks,
The Moleskins,
Erykah Badu,
Swell Maps,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
cv313,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.