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 Cyprus and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
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 snare 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 The Wake to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Yazoo,
The Smoke,
Lou Reed,
Tim Buckley,
Scratch Acid,
Hoover,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Visage,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boz Scaggs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Modern Lovers,
Sight & Sound,
The Vogues,
Surgeon,
Soulsonic Force,
Deadbeat,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blossom Toes,
Sandy B,
Royal Trux,
Sällskapet,
Quadrant,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scrapy,
DJ Style,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Lynne,
FM Einheit,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fat Boys,
David McCallum,
Dark Day,
Can,
Bobbi Humphrey,
UT,
Section 25,
Adolescents,
Scientists,
Sarah Menescal,
Avey Tare,
Cybotron,
China Crisis,
The Five Americans,
Lalann,
T.S.O.L.,
John Holt,
Lindisfarne,
Thee Headcoats,
Barclay James Harvest,
Technova,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lyres,
Flash Fearless,
Sam Rivers,
The Tremeloes,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.