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 Brunei and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba 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 Unwound to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
The Wake,
Lakeside,
Aswad,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marine Girls,
Essential Logic,
Nick Fraelich,
Toni Rubio,
Sparks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
New Order,
Yazoo,
Eurythmics,
Glenn Branca,
Sixth Finger,
The Electric Prunes,
Ice-T,
The Sound,
Thompson Twins,
Delon & Dalcan,
Al Stewart,
Soul Sonic Force,
The J.B.'s,
kango's stein massive,
The Kinks,
The Trojans,
Anthony Braxton,
Brass Construction,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Duran Duran,
Fugazi,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Motions,
Ten City,
Organ,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed,
Alice Coltrane,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Yaz,
Joensuu 1685,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fortunes,
The Divine Comedy,
The Gap Band,
Mad Mike,
Au Pairs,
The Barracudas,
Nas,
Little Man,
Moebius,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.