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 Albania and from London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Slackers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
AZ,
David McCallum,
A Certain Ratio,
Idris Muhammad,
Eddi Front,
The Smiths,
JFA,
Ken Boothe,
Yaz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nas,
the Human League,
Kool Moe Dee,
Patti Smith,
Tomorrow,
Sam Rivers,
The Move,
New York Dolls,
Sex Pistols,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blake Baxter,
L. Decosne,
The Monochrome Set,
Wasted Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wire,
The Pretty Things,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
Sugar Minott,
Mantronix,
Black Bananas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Techniques,
Eli Mardock,
Panda Bear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barrington Levy,
Buzzcocks,
Neil Young,
Guru Guru,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Funkadelic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Sherman,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Index,
Vladislav Delay,
Tres Demented,
Boredoms,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roxy Music,
The Real Kids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
8 Eyed Spy,
Boz Scaggs,
Scan 7,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.