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 Latvia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cybotron to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Marine Girls,
Moby Grape,
Max Romeo,
Model 500,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barbara Tucker,
The Modern Lovers,
Interpol,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amazonics,
Fad Gadget,
Soft Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
ABBA,
The Black Dice,
OOIOO,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wolf Eyes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alice Coltrane,
Erykah Badu,
Motorama,
the Soft Cell,
The Move,
Letta Mbulu,
Delon & Dalcan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
R.M.O.,
Scientists,
Matthew Halsall,
Graham Central Station,
Von Mondo,
Eden Ahbez,
Anakelly,
Nas,
Flash Fearless,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rufus Thomas,
Q65,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hashim,
Fugazi,
Nirvana,
The Pop Group,
Simply Red,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DJ Sneak,
Scrapy,
Heaven 17,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The New Christs,
Banda Bassotti,
Lebanon Hanover,
Swell Maps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Guru Guru,
Con Funk Shun,
Wasted Youth,
Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys.
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.