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 Togo and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Holger Czukay 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 Offenders to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Scientists,
Section 25,
Johnny Clarke,
Glenn Branca,
Banda Bassotti,
Unwound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pantaleimon,
Wolf Eyes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
The Sound,
Ten City,
Wire,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Gap Band,
Panda Bear,
Eric Dolphy,
Monolake,
Groovy Waters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Magazine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sound Behaviour,
Brand Nubian,
Grauzone,
Jawbox,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boredoms,
Mark Hollis,
Brass Construction,
Michelle Simonal,
Quantec,
Lucky Dragons,
Amon Düül,
The Slackers,
Wasted Youth,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Liliput,
The Fortunes,
Minor Threat,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dennis Brown,
Electric Prunes,
JFA,
June of 44,
The Moody Blues,
the Human League,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Mojo Men,
the Bar-Kays,
Bill Wells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Iggy Pop,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Blancmange,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.