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 Jordan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe 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 Second Layer to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Ossler,
Hot Snakes,
Pere Ubu,
Echospace,
The Seeds,
Theoretical Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Thee Headcoats,
Inner City,
Sparks,
Slick Rick,
Popol Vuh,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Names,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Unwound,
H. Thieme,
The Vogues,
Reuben Wilson,
the Human League,
Wally Richardson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Niagra,
The Stooges,
Intrusion,
Cal Tjader,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MC5,
Howard Jones,
Roxy Music,
Nils Olav,
Public Image Ltd.,
Altered Images,
Archie Shepp,
Bauhaus,
The Knickerbockers,
Terry Callier,
Simply Red,
Cecil Taylor,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sonic Youth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mad Mike,
the Slits,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bronski Beat,
The Young Rascals,
Davy DMX,
Sun Ra,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed,
Graham Central Station,
Young Marble Giants,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Remains,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.