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 Ukraine and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Bobby Sherman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Das Ding,
The Blues Magoos,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agent Orange,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Doors,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pylon,
Albert Ayler,
Suicide,
Shoche,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eden Ahbez,
Icehouse,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Silicon Teens,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Victims,
This Heat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sound Behaviour,
The American Breed,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fugs,
Youth Brigade,
Lungfish,
Tommy Roe,
Ituana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Lyres,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camouflage,
Agitation Free,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bronski Beat,
Angry Samoans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
Camberwell Now,
Janne Schatter,
Wire,
kango's stein massive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Peter & Gordon,
The J.B.'s,
Fat Boys,
The Human League,
Aaron Thompson,
Johnny Clarke,
One Last Wish,
Erykah Badu,
Cecil Taylor,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.