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 Uzbekistan and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro 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 Pylon to the jazz 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Age Steppers,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott Heron,
This Heat,
Maurizio,
Black Sheep,
The Cramps,
The Toasters,
Symarip,
Crispian St. Peters,
Au Pairs,
Joyce Sims,
Sex Pistols,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wolf Eyes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ituana,
Glenn Branca,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Association,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Arthur Verocai,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Second Layer,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Massinfluence,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rekid,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eve St. Jones,
Youth Brigade,
Babytalk,
Faust,
Black Bananas,
Unwound,
Fela Kuti,
Echospace,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rapeman,
Vladislav Delay,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
The Evens,
Wasted Youth,
A Certain Ratio,
Das Ding,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Blues Magoos,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shuggie Otis,
The Doors,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.