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 Israel and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare 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 The Pretty Things to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
The Star Department,
Black Flag,
Bootsy Collins,
Masters at Work,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Skaos,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang of Four,
Lalo Schifrin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
One Last Wish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dave Gahan,
Minutemen,
Stockholm Monsters,
Thee Headcoats,
Public Image Ltd.,
Graham Central Station,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeff Mills,
MDC,
Country Teasers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dark Day,
China Crisis,
Sonic Youth,
The Doors,
Hashim,
The Monochrome Set,
Rites of Spring,
The Black Dice,
The Gap Band,
Lou Christie,
Man Parrish,
The Blackbyrds,
Yazoo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ohio Players,
The Moleskins,
Angry Samoans,
Nils Olav,
The Saints,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dead Boys,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Glambeats Corp.,
Grauzone,
Tom Boy,
Guru Guru,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
Pierre Henry,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Josef K,
Scott Walker,
Youth Brigade,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.