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 Brazil and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tears for Fears to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
CMW,
The Selecter,
Black Bananas,
Barrington Levy,
World's Most,
Roxy Music,
The Moleskins,
Crash Course in Science,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Searchers,
Sun Ra,
Cluster,
Dual Sessions,
Icehouse,
Panda Bear,
Tropical Tobacco,
Girls At Our Best!,
Newcleus,
Tom Boy,
MDC,
Bill Near,
kango's stein massive,
Aural Exciters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Erykah Badu,
Grandmaster Flash,
UT,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick May,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Terry,
Alphaville,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yazoo,
Godley & Creme,
Flash Fearless,
The Angels of Light,
The Fire Engines,
Rufus Thomas,
Patti Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Agitation Free,
Minutemen,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ludus,
Maleditus Sound,
Whodini,
Deadbeat,
Nico,
Massinfluence,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dennis Brown,
Ossler,
Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
Funkadelic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
E-Dancer,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Happenings,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.