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 Senegal and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin 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 Beau Brummels to the techno 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sex Pistols,
Main Source,
Iggy Pop,
Panda Bear,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
One Last Wish,
AZ,
Technova,
Rufus Thomas,
Lalo Schifrin,
These Immortal Souls,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick Morgan,
Fluxion,
Half Japanese,
Skriet,
Slave,
The Monochrome Set,
Motorama,
Freddie Wadling,
Slick Rick,
Tropical Tobacco,
Michelle Simonal,
The Offenders,
The Wake,
Drexciya,
10cc,
The Monks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Interpol,
Sunsets and Hearts,
T.S.O.L.,
Au Pairs,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sarah Menescal,
Magazine,
Nas,
a-ha,
Gong,
Arcadia,
Gang Green,
Eric Dolphy,
Malaria!,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minnie Riperton,
Shoche,
Dawn Penn,
Kerri Chandler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sonics,
Vladislav Delay,
The Young Rascals,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nils Olav,
Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.