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 Thailand and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Nico to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Soft Cell,
The Saints,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Barracudas,
Second Layer,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Letta Mbulu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rapeman,
Model 500,
Lucky Dragons,
Siglo XX,
Soulsonic Force,
Los Fastidios,
AZ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Clear Light,
Unwound,
Rosa Yemen,
The Litter,
OOIOO,
Buzzcocks,
Erykah Badu,
Nas,
Index,
Nick Fraelich,
Joyce Sims,
Franke,
Fatback Band,
Pulsallama,
The Human League,
Soft Cell,
Kas Product,
Leonard Cohen,
Hashim,
Depeche Mode,
John Cale,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mr. Review,
Fugazi,
The Fall,
Laurel Aitken,
Dual Sessions,
The Moleskins,
Das Ding,
Scientists,
Todd Rundgren,
Young Marble Giants,
Darondo,
Hardrive,
Skarface,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tubeway Army,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Misunderstood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.