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 Solomon Islands and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bad Manners to the grime 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Underground Resistance,
Yellowson,
Clear Light,
Ash Ra Tempel,
In Retrospect,
X-102,
Marmalade,
Juan Atkins,
Suburban Knight,
cv313,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick Morgan,
Essential Logic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Skarface,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nas,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
10cc,
Josef K,
Marc Almond,
Althea and Donna,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Bourne,
Chrome,
Barclay James Harvest,
Archie Shepp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Dead C,
The Mojo Men,
Trumans Water,
Henry Cow,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Symarip,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Absolute Body Control,
Boogie Down Productions,
Franke,
The Neon Judgement,
Vainqueur,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter and Kerry,
The Doors,
B.T. Express,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Graham Central Station,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hot Snakes,
Silicon Teens,
Tubeway Army,
Kas Product,
Livin' Joy,
Ten City,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.