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 Finland and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator 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 Gerry Rafferty to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Funky Four + One,
Quando Quango,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Arthur Verocai,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gories,
Q65,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brand Nubian,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Starr,
Aswad,
Simply Red,
Sonic Youth,
Nils Olav,
F. McDonald,
the Soft Cell,
Pylon,
UT,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Angels of Light,
Nirvana,
Los Fastidios,
Banda Bassotti,
The Skatalites,
Roxette,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Judy Mowatt,
David McCallum,
Parry Music,
T. Rex,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deadbeat,
The Selecter,
Suicide,
The Mojo Men,
Bad Manners,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Index,
Erykah Badu,
Curtis Mayfield,
Second Layer,
Mo-Dettes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Nick Fraelich,
Organ,
Swans,
A Certain Ratio,
H. Thieme,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jerry's Kids,
Kenny Larkin,
10cc,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delta 5,
Pere Ubu,
Lee Hazlewood,
Idris Muhammad,
Darondo,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.