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 Turkey and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord 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 Soft Cell to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
John Foxx,
Connie Case,
Scrapy,
The Gladiators,
The Gories,
The Moleskins,
LL Cool J,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Panda Bear,
Circle Jerks,
Parry Music,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
cv313,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Techniques,
Funky Four + One,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Smooth,
Unrelated Segments,
Brick,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rotary Connection,
Black Bananas,
Ossler,
Flash Fearless,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Zeros,
Lakeside,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fuzztones,
Liliput,
Gregory Isaacs,
Main Source,
It's A Beautiful Day,
FM Einheit,
Dave Gahan,
EPMD,
L. Decosne,
John Lydon,
Harry Pussy,
the Swans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pole,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
David Axelrod,
Leonard Cohen,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
Silicon Teens,
Deakin,
The Last Poets,
Camouflage,
The Monks,
Thompson Twins,
The Tremeloes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Halsall,
Blake Baxter,
Rosa Yemen,
Ituana,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.