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 Belize and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 The Human League 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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
The Grass Roots,
Intrusion,
UT,
Motorama,
Marc Almond,
The New Christs,
The Cowsills,
Sixth Finger,
Alice Coltrane,
Eden Ahbez,
Deadbeat,
Nick Fraelich,
Minor Threat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Human League,
Angry Samoans,
Rotary Connection,
The Move,
Interpol,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fall,
Supertramp,
Reagan Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
Outsiders,
Flash Fearless,
Todd Rundgren,
Brand Nubian,
Technova,
Joe Smooth,
Maleditus Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Modern Lovers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alphaville,
Bobby Womack,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joey Negro,
Davy DMX,
Bluetip,
EPMD,
Cal Tjader,
Soft Machine,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DJ Style,
Arcadia,
The Names,
Bush Tetras,
Desert Stars,
Girls At Our Best!,
Matthew Bourne,
Erykah Badu,
Faust,
Bobby Sherman,
Talk Talk,
Warsaw,
Thee Headcoats,
Ossler,
Lou Reed,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.