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 San Marino and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Todd Terry to the grime 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Subhumans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
EPMD,
Bauhaus,
Sex Pistols,
Pantaleimon,
Gang Green,
Kool Moe Dee,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Soft Cell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agitation Free,
Thee Headcoats,
Godley & Creme,
Sixth Finger,
Terry Callier,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gories,
Soulsonic Force,
Maleditus Sound,
Shuggie Otis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visage,
Babytalk,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sound Behaviour,
Tommy Roe,
Average White Band,
This Heat,
Rhythm & Sound,
Infiniti,
Desert Stars,
Throbbing Gristle,
Franke,
Jeff Lynne,
Zapp,
The Real Kids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
U.S. Maple,
Monolake,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Offenders,
Cheater Slicks,
Sam Rivers,
Sparks,
Toni Rubio,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rites of Spring,
Alphaville,
Rotary Connection,
The Knickerbockers,
Byron Stingily,
Scrapy,
Basic Channel,
Man Parrish,
China Crisis,
Nirvana,
The Saints,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.