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 Guinea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe 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 Lalo Schifrin 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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Simply Red,
The Fall,
Half Japanese,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Standells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boredoms,
Outsiders,
Dawn Penn,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swell Maps,
Groovy Waters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q65,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
kango's stein massive,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Seeds,
Avey Tare,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lou Reed,
Harmonia,
the Association,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pantytec,
Crispy Ambulance,
Radiohead,
Soul Sonic Force,
Icehouse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
One Last Wish,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter & Gordon,
Ituana,
Wolf Eyes,
Derrick May,
Second Layer,
B.T. Express,
Bobby Byrd,
Todd Rundgren,
New Order,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vainqueur,
Lakeside,
The Pop Group,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rakim,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dark Day,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Moebius,
Main Source,
Danielle Patucci,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.