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 New Zealand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tim Buckley to the electroclash 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Nas,
Morten Harket,
Moby Grape,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Young Rascals,
The Five Americans,
Nirvana,
The Slits,
Vainqueur,
Quantec,
Easy Going,
Kenny Larkin,
Sight & Sound,
Cecil Taylor,
Carl Craig,
Josef K,
Boredoms,
Hashim,
Glenn Branca,
Organ,
Aaron Thompson,
Maleditus Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Fela Kuti,
Roy Ayers,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Public Enemy,
Visage,
The Move,
Eurythmics,
Khruangbin,
Minutemen,
The Cowsills,
Accadde A,
The Saints,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultravox,
Duran Duran,
Inner City,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Theoretical Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
New Order,
Groovy Waters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans,
Eddi Front,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxette,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.