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 Nigeria and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Roxy Music to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Minutemen,
Quadrant,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Gabor Szabo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Massinfluence,
F. McDonald,
the Soft Cell,
the Human League,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kaleidoscope,
Wally Richardson,
Junior Murvin,
Davy DMX,
New Age Steppers,
Main Source,
Ronnie Foster,
Soul II Soul,
Liliput,
Prince Buster,
The Sonics,
The Cowsills,
Young Marble Giants,
Clear Light,
The Trojans,
Flipper,
Eurythmics,
Animal Collective,
James White and The Blacks,
Bush Tetras,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Searchers,
China Crisis,
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Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jandek,
Cymande,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barbara Tucker,
Maurizio,
Sarah Menescal,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Isaac Hayes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joensuu 1685,
Freddie Wadling,
Eden Ahbez,
The Angels of Light,
Absolute Body Control,
Ralphi Rosario,
Peter & Gordon,
Unrelated Segments,
The Blues Magoos,
B.T. Express,
Pole,
The Smoke,
Alton Ellis,
D'Angelo,
Todd Terry,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.