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 Korea North and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Barbara Tucker to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Oblivians,
Desert Stars,
Gang Starr,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed,
K-Klass,
Lucky Dragons,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Yellowson,
The Gap Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Althea and Donna,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Massinfluence,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
DNA,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scrapy,
Au Pairs,
Black Moon,
Arcadia,
Mars,
Absolute Body Control,
Gang Green,
Freddie Wadling,
The Zeros,
Pussy Galore,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Maurizio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Rundgren,
The Doors,
The Skatalites,
Lalann,
The Saints,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aloha Tigers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Groovy Waters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Niagra,
Tommy Roe,
The Monks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donald Byrd,
Visage,
ABC,
Nico,
Rekid,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun City Girls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jawbox,
Qualms,
The Gladiators,
Brick,
The Cramps,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.