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 Yemen and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Offenders 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chrome,
JFA,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lower 48,
The Litter,
Jeff Mills,
Hoover,
The Move,
Prince Buster,
The Evens,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Laurel Aitken,
The J.B.'s,
Tears for Fears,
Neu!,
Adolescents,
Boredoms,
Hasil Adkins,
Glenn Branca,
Isaac Hayes,
The New Christs,
Porter Ricks,
Ituana,
China Crisis,
Au Pairs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Desert Stars,
U.S. Maple,
Barbara Tucker,
Zero Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABBA,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Pretty Things,
K-Klass,
D'Angelo,
T.S.O.L.,
Idris Muhammad,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fad Gadget,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tubeway Army,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric Copeland,
Lee Hazlewood,
Subhumans,
Quantec,
The Cramps,
Buzzcocks,
Vladislav Delay,
Sandy B,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Intrusion,
X-101,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.