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 Bhutan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Skaos,
Piero Umiliani,
Roger Hodgson,
China Crisis,
Ultra Naté,
Gichy Dan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Japan,
10cc,
The Neon Judgement,
Bang On A Can,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tubeway Army,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nation of Ulysses,
New Order,
Black Moon,
Sonic Youth,
Pussy Galore,
Althea and Donna,
The Mummies,
Gang of Four,
Frankie Knuckles,
Index,
Infiniti,
Radiopuhelimet,
LL Cool J,
Bronski Beat,
Hot Snakes,
Pole,
Camouflage,
The Vogues,
The Five Americans,
Franke,
Erykah Badu,
The New Christs,
MDC,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nick Fraelich,
Warren Ellis,
Deadbeat,
Derrick Morgan,
Wings,
T.S.O.L.,
The Cramps,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ponytail,
The Victims,
The Beau Brummels,
Harmonia,
Intrusion,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blackbyrds,
Radiohead,
Au Pairs,
Man Parrish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Supertramp,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.