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 Uganda and from New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes 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 Pet Shop Boys to the funk 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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Buzzcocks,
David Bowie,
Crispian St. Peters,
Blancmange,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dual Sessions,
Public Enemy,
The Searchers,
Joe Finger,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Stooges,
The Seeds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jandek,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Piero Umiliani,
Smog,
Sonic Youth,
Bang On A Can,
48th St. Collective,
Siglo XX,
Cameo,
Cluster,
Rufus Thomas,
Wolf Eyes,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Sonics,
Tim Buckley,
Cheater Slicks,
Radiohead,
Nik Kershaw,
The Music Machine,
Jawbox,
Pierre Henry,
Leonard Cohen,
Maurizio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crime,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young,
Mars,
The Last Poets,
The Neon Judgement,
Deakin,
Jimmy McGriff,
Can,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
One Last Wish,
The Skatalites,
John Coltrane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.