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 Morocco and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Procol Harum to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Sound Behaviour,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fall,
Black Flag,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scott Walker,
Gong,
10cc,
Dark Day,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
B.T. Express,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cecil Taylor,
The Doors,
Nirvana,
Frankie Knuckles,
Infiniti,
The Velvet Underground,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Sherman,
Soft Machine,
Tomorrow,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Monks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barbara Tucker,
Ornette Coleman,
Roy Ayers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harmonia,
kango's stein massive,
Lou Reed,
Fluxion,
Junior Murvin,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Names,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bobby Byrd,
Sonny Sharrock,
Drexciya,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Young Rascals,
The Angels of Light,
Youth Brigade,
The Mojo Men,
Babytalk,
the Germs,
Joey Negro,
The Real Kids,
Dave Gahan,
Matthew Bourne,
the Slits,
The Toasters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yaz,
Yellowson,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.