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 Taiwan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jerry's Kids to the dance 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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Young Marble Giants,
Joyce Sims,
the Human League,
The Slits,
Donny Hathaway,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rakim,
Joensuu 1685,
Brick,
Schoolly D,
The Moody Blues,
X-101,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mission of Burma,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ultra Naté,
Fela Kuti,
Traffic Nightmare,
June of 44,
Junior Murvin,
Darondo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Slave,
Von Mondo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
Mars,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
8 Eyed Spy,
MDC,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
UT,
Oneida,
The Walker Brothers,
Lee Hazlewood,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Adolescents,
Alison Limerick,
Maleditus Sound,
The Busters,
The Real Kids,
Sugar Minott,
Grey Daturas,
Popol Vuh,
Colin Newman,
The Martian,
Cluster,
Scion,
Drive Like Jehu,
World's Most,
Godley & Creme,
T. Rex,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tears for Fears,
U.S. Maple,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Gun Club,
Half Japanese,
Rod Modell,
Erasure,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.