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 Paraguay and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Chris Corsano to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Dave Gahan,
Excepter,
Graham Central Station,
Essential Logic,
Cybotron,
Minor Threat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Leaves,
Joensuu 1685,
Albert Ayler,
The Selecter,
The Kinks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Public Enemy,
Underground Resistance,
Roger Hodgson,
Severed Heads,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gap Band,
Qualms,
The Sound,
The Cure,
Robert Görl,
Crispy Ambulance,
Don Cherry,
Los Fastidios,
The Fortunes,
Blancmange,
Ultra Naté,
Sun City Girls,
Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Rotary Connection,
The Mojo Men,
The Vogues,
Joy Division,
Byron Stingily,
Fad Gadget,
Talk Talk,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Prince Buster,
Brass Construction,
the Association,
The Angels of Light,
David Axelrod,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eurythmics,
China Crisis,
The Gladiators,
Freddie Wadling,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Smog,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Aaron Thompson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
Dawn Penn,
Ponytail,
In Retrospect,
Joey Negro,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.