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 Lithuania and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Roxette to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
R.M.O.,
The Electric Prunes,
the Soft Cell,
Sällskapet,
Spoonie Gee,
Marine Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Basic Channel,
Danielle Patucci,
the Germs,
Ronnie Foster,
Lalann,
Juan Atkins,
Urselle,
Lebanon Hanover,
Television Personalities,
The Mummies,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Khruangbin,
The Happenings,
Fad Gadget,
Man Parrish,
U.S. Maple,
Sonic Youth,
This Heat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Icehouse,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
Nas,
Tomorrow,
Wire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Metal Thangz,
Faust,
Todd Terry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Trumans Water,
Mantronix,
Oblivians,
Nico,
Johnny Osbourne,
Con Funk Shun,
Slave,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
FM Einheit,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
One Last Wish,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
Inner City,
Sun Ra,
John Foxx,
Jawbox,
Brick,
Black Flag,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.