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 Vanuatu and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
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 sitar 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the grunge 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Dennis Brown,
Basic Channel,
Joe Smooth,
DJ Sneak,
Black Bananas,
Mary Jane Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scrapy,
Porter Ricks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Quadrant,
OOIOO,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Amazonics,
Scan 7,
Throbbing Gristle,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Smiths,
Second Layer,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Albert Ayler,
Zero Boys,
Henry Cow,
Black Moon,
Max Romeo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Animal Collective,
The Evens,
Harry Pussy,
The Slits,
Roxette,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fat Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Connie Case,
Kaleidoscope,
Agitation Free,
The Raincoats,
Barbara Tucker,
the Human League,
Patti Smith,
One Last Wish,
Peter and Kerry,
Yaz,
Ten City,
Howard Jones,
Talk Talk,
Brass Construction,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Blackbyrds,
Warsaw,
Wasted Youth,
Ken Boothe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Depeche Mode,
Dorothy Ashby,
Oneida,
Symarip,
Rod Modell,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.