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 Oman and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Flipper to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun Ra,
Oblivians,
Black Moon,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Smiths,
Black Bananas,
The Fire Engines,
DNA,
DJ Sneak,
Eden Ahbez,
Joensuu 1685,
Radiopuhelimet,
Deepchord,
Aswad,
Television Personalities,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cure,
ABBA,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Womack,
Organ,
The Mojo Men,
Joyce Sims,
Bob Dylan,
Model 500,
The Fall,
Joe Finger,
Gang of Four,
The Tremeloes,
Ken Boothe,
The Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
David McCallum,
Lakeside,
Tubeway Army,
The Barracudas,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Deakin,
cv313,
Scion,
John Cale,
Half Japanese,
D'Angelo,
Camberwell Now,
Hasil Adkins,
Chris Corsano,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Names,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Evens,
Young Marble Giants,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
Pylon,
Malaria!,
Nils Olav,
Niagra,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.