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 France and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 Blake Baxter to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
Delta 5,
Radio Birdman,
Bill Near,
Slick Rick,
Sonic Youth,
Oneida,
Angry Samoans,
Skriet,
Yaz,
a-ha,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Organ,
Icehouse,
Oblivians,
Scratch Acid,
Johnny Osbourne,
Al Stewart,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Sneak,
The Fugs,
Eden Ahbez,
Monolake,
New Order,
Gang of Four,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brand Nubian,
the Germs,
The Pop Group,
The Dave Clark Five,
Robert Hood,
Vainqueur,
Soulsonic Force,
Goldenarms,
Matthew Bourne,
Basic Channel,
Graham Central Station,
Public Enemy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Grass Roots,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Christie,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Last Poets,
Zapp,
Fad Gadget,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash,
Anthony Braxton,
Animal Collective,
Fear,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scrapy,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Alphaville,
The Detroit Cobras,
Japan,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.