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 Tonga and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Lou Reed 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 Sällskapet to the dance 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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minnie Riperton,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Dennis Brown,
Moby Grape,
Boz Scaggs,
The Busters,
Drexciya,
Sarah Menescal,
Henry Cow,
Rosa Yemen,
Bang On A Can,
Eli Mardock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
Sexual Harrassment,
Scion,
Franke,
The Fire Engines,
Q65,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Raincoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cecil Taylor,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quando Quango,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
New Order,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Birthday Party,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Hill,
Barclay James Harvest,
Delon & Dalcan,
World's Most,
The Toasters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crash Course in Science,
Harry Pussy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
EPMD,
The Human League,
Reagan Youth,
The Searchers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Green,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Camouflage,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ice-T,
Fela Kuti,
Average White Band,
Deakin,
Barrington Levy,
Monolake,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.