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 Eritrea and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
The Misunderstood,
The Grass Roots,
The Dirtbombs,
Ten City,
Bizarre Inc.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sexual Harrassment,
Popol Vuh,
Shuggie Otis,
the Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Rufus Thomas,
Average White Band,
Junior Murvin,
Drexciya,
Alice Coltrane,
Stockholm Monsters,
Masters at Work,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aswad,
Freddie Wadling,
Arthur Verocai,
June of 44,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Pop Group,
Crispian St. Peters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül,
Jacques Brel,
Guru Guru,
Maurizio,
The Busters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
CMW,
Tres Demented,
Vainqueur,
Scientists,
The Remains,
Deepchord,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Wells,
Banda Bassotti,
Spoonie Gee,
Lungfish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fire Engines,
Parry Music,
Sister Nancy,
Gang Gang Dance,
New York Dolls,
The Smoke,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Kinks,
The Slits,
Lower 48,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tomorrow,
Magma,
The Zeros,
The Cramps,
Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye.
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.