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 Tajikistan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Alton Ellis to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
the Human League,
Amazonics,
Visage,
New Order,
Arcadia,
Eve St. Jones,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Amon Düül,
Brand Nubian,
Hashim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Coltrane,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jawbox,
Rosa Yemen,
Basic Channel,
The Black Dice,
Joyce Sims,
Mary Jane Girls,
Desert Stars,
Talk Talk,
Ten City,
Aaron Thompson,
Oneida,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Durutti Column,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hoover,
Gang Starr,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Altered Images,
Whodini,
Laurel Aitken,
David Axelrod,
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Neon Judgement,
Excepter,
Janne Schatter,
Hasil Adkins,
Buzzcocks,
Patti Smith,
A Certain Ratio,
The Flesh Eaters,
Guru Guru,
Reuben Wilson,
Flipper,
Lalann,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The New Christs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
X-101,
Pulsallama,
Erasure,
The Slackers,
Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.