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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Audionom to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Negative Approach,
Pagans,
New Age Steppers,
Camouflage,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Barracudas,
Japan,
The J.B.'s,
Heaven 17,
Maurizio,
The Sound,
The Martian,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Electric Prunes,
Morten Harket,
Minny Pops,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rod Modell,
Aaron Thompson,
Jandek,
Scrapy,
Whodini,
8 Eyed Spy,
Television,
Harmonia,
Agitation Free,
The Neon Judgement,
Model 500,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stiv Bators,
The Gun Club,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Average White Band,
Royal Trux,
The Music Machine,
Soft Machine,
Ultravox,
Jeff Lynne,
Monolake,
The Moleskins,
Amon Düül,
Second Layer,
The Saints,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Anakelly,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
OOIOO,
PIL,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eve St. Jones,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fear,
Sarah Menescal,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Depeche Mode,
Rufus Thomas,
The Index,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.