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 Japan 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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Delhi.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 David Axelrod to the electroclash 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and an arpeggiator 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 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
The Searchers,
Livin' Joy,
The Standells,
The Selecter,
The Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Guru Guru,
The Gladiators,
Jeff Mills,
Can,
The Zeros,
Soulsonic Force,
DNA,
Johnny Osbourne,
CMW,
Reuben Wilson,
This Heat,
DJ Style,
Bush Tetras,
One Last Wish,
The Busters,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cowsills,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sound Behaviour,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stiv Bators,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Johnny Clarke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Juan Atkins,
Anakelly,
The Wake,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Lydon,
Television,
Desert Stars,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Arthur Verocai,
Dave Gahan,
Average White Band,
Von Mondo,
Minnie Riperton,
New York Dolls,
Nils Olav,
Ohio Players,
The Red Krayola,
Kerri Chandler,
Oblivians,
The Grass Roots,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.