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 Norway and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 kango's stein massive to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Basic Channel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlback,
Charles Mingus,
Kenny Larkin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Alison Limerick,
Barrington Levy,
Patti Smith,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eve St. Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
kango's stein massive,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sound Behaviour,
Eli Mardock,
Schoolly D,
The Misunderstood,
Grauzone,
the Soft Cell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Agitation Free,
The Birthday Party,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Juan Atkins,
Country Teasers,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang Starr,
Siglo XX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Moody Blues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sex Pistols,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dead Boys,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rod Modell,
Rites of Spring,
R.M.O.,
The Blackbyrds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
MDC,
Depeche Mode,
Camouflage,
Fad Gadget,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Bananas,
Flipper,
the Association,
The Searchers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Divine Comedy,
Rakim,
Wings,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barbara Tucker,
The Techniques,
Young Marble Giants,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.