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 Grenada and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Byron Stingily,
The Knickerbockers,
Bush Tetras,
Marmalade,
Jandek,
Girls At Our Best!,
Grey Daturas,
Drive Like Jehu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra,
Deadbeat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marvin Gaye,
Aaron Thompson,
The Slackers,
Basic Channel,
Brick,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Chris Corsano,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Starr,
Rapeman,
Metal Thangz,
Traffic Nightmare,
ABC,
Al Stewart,
The United States of America,
FM Einheit,
The Wake,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roxette,
ABBA,
Hot Snakes,
Second Layer,
Minutemen,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kenny Larkin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Drexciya,
Lou Reed,
Accadde A,
Schoolly D,
Grauzone,
Mr. Review,
Colin Newman,
The Fortunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
World's Most,
Funkadelic,
Essential Logic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Niagra,
Eden Ahbez,
Rotary Connection,
Scratch Acid,
Suicide,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.