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 Seychelles and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Chrome to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Cluster,
Bobby Byrd,
Mandrill,
Swell Maps,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Barrington Levy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scion,
The Knickerbockers,
The Names,
Suburban Knight,
John Cale,
AZ,
Harmonia,
The Motions,
Gil Scott Heron,
Aloha Tigers,
Soft Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Make Up,
Ohio Players,
Marc Almond,
Silicon Teens,
David McCallum,
The Dead C,
Q65,
Mission of Burma,
The Doors,
Y Pants,
Newcleus,
Nation of Ulysses,
Michelle Simonal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bill Wells,
The Victims,
The Dirtbombs,
Lucky Dragons,
Terrestrial Tones,
Livin' Joy,
Mr. Review,
Gang Gang Dance,
Zapp,
Scientists,
Radiopuhelimet,
Amazonics,
the Bar-Kays,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Trojans,
Crooked Eye,
Flash Fearless,
Darondo,
The Toasters,
Lalann,
The Alarm Clocks,
June of 44,
Sonic Youth,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.