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 United Kingdom and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Smog to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Motorama,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Zeros,
ABBA,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dead Boys,
Shoche,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rhythm & Sound,
Chris & Cosey,
Newcleus,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Easy Going,
Eddi Front,
Tears for Fears,
Ituana,
Yazoo,
Desert Stars,
Khruangbin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barbara Tucker,
MDC,
Delta 5,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-101,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stetsasonic,
Aloha Tigers,
Wolf Eyes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cowsills,
The Slackers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Infiniti,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
Al Stewart,
The Gap Band,
Echospace,
DJ Style,
Piero Umiliani,
Gil Scott Heron,
Excepter,
Soulsonic Force,
Banda Bassotti,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Association,
Guru Guru,
Soft Machine,
Ohio Players,
Q and Not U,
Robert Görl,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.