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 Cambodia and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Black Flag 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Flesh Eaters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
The Monochrome Set,
Unrelated Segments,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
a-ha,
Patti Smith,
Lower 48,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Victims,
Gang of Four,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
In Retrospect,
Yazoo,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Wyatt,
Terry Callier,
Harry Pussy,
China Crisis,
Drexciya,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bill Near,
A Certain Ratio,
Sällskapet,
Motorama,
The Young Rascals,
Duran Duran,
F. McDonald,
Radiohead,
Dawn Penn,
Susan Cadogan,
The Cure,
Half Japanese,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Soulsonic Force,
Nik Kershaw,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
David Bowie,
Au Pairs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Basic Channel,
Royal Trux,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Electric Prunes,
Slave,
Camouflage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Judy Mowatt,
Skarface,
Mo-Dettes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crooked Eye,
Bill Wells,
Skaos,
Bronski Beat,
Joey Negro,
MDC,
The American Breed,
Lou Reed,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.