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 Russia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb 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 The Fall to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Barracudas,
Matthew Bourne,
Banda Bassotti,
R.M.O.,
Funky Four + One,
Main Source,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerri Chandler,
Minor Threat,
The Mojo Men,
The Kinks,
The Residents,
The Smiths,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Human League,
Motorama,
the Swans,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bootsy Collins,
Rapeman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
AZ,
MC5,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lucky Dragons,
Reuben Wilson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Dead C,
Surgeon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gichy Dan,
Sun City Girls,
Kas Product,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Arcadia,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Gastr Del Sol,
Angry Samoans,
Crime,
Kevin Saunderson,
Iggy Pop,
Skriet,
In Retrospect,
Brand Nubian,
Sarah Menescal,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fall,
Bobby Byrd,
Sixth Finger,
Television,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.