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 East Timor and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 güiro 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Crispian St. Peters,
Clear Light,
Ohio Players,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Letta Mbulu,
The Seeds,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Christie,
Peter and Kerry,
Joensuu 1685,
Erasure,
Qualms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ornette Coleman,
Gang Starr,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Massinfluence,
Blancmange,
Mandrill,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Normal,
The Smiths,
Sällskapet,
Matthew Bourne,
The Neon Judgement,
Chrome,
Prince Buster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bill Near,
Nirvana,
Yaz,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scientists,
Man Eating Sloth,
Avey Tare,
Joyce Sims,
Isaac Hayes,
kango's stein massive,
Subhumans,
Eli Mardock,
The Mojo Men,
Gabor Szabo,
Severed Heads,
10cc,
Radiohead,
the Sonics,
Joy Division,
Bobby Byrd,
Basic Channel,
Sun Ra,
The Selecter,
Groovy Waters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
a-ha,
Todd Terry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yellowson,
Inner City,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Golliwogs,
PIL,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.