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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gabor Szabo to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mummies,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Bourne,
Pere Ubu,
Harry Pussy,
Malaria!,
The Music Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Niagra,
Icehouse,
Roy Ayers,
The Sonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Urselle,
the Association,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Royal Trux,
Swans,
The Selecter,
Goldenarms,
The Alarm Clocks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slave,
The Slits,
Bill Near,
Dark Day,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scrapy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
A Certain Ratio,
Kayak,
The Fall,
Sandy B,
Camouflage,
Nils Olav,
Rakim,
Aaron Thompson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Quando Quango,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
Neu!,
Godley & Creme,
Tomorrow,
Minny Pops,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
New Order,
Cecil Taylor,
The Slackers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Barracudas,
The Dirtbombs,
Eden Ahbez,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.