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 Kyrgyzstan and from Calgary.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 The Fire Engines to the disco 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Avey Tare,
the Association,
Mandrill,
Girls At Our Best!,
Slick Rick,
Gichy Dan,
Hasil Adkins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arcadia,
Public Enemy,
Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kool Moe Dee,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Shuggie Otis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Moby Grape,
Derrick May,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Velvet Underground,
Inner City,
Eli Mardock,
Colin Newman,
Hot Snakes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Zeros,
Circle Jerks,
Con Funk Shun,
Essential Logic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camouflage,
Dave Gahan,
Moss Icon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sparks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Index,
Alton Ellis,
Yellowson,
Matthew Halsall,
Fat Boys,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pulsallama,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Gun Club,
Deadbeat,
La Düsseldorf,
Fela Kuti,
The Trojans,
Model 500,
Interpol,
Siglo XX,
Brass Construction,
Heaven 17,
Bill Wells,
Das Ding,
Crispian St. Peters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.