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 Kiribati and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb 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 Goldenarms to the rap 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Wally Richardson,
Freddie Wadling,
Circle Jerks,
The Barracudas,
These Immortal Souls,
Marc Almond,
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Eli Mardock,
the Germs,
Lindisfarne,
Grauzone,
Simply Red,
Bronski Beat,
Interpol,
Blossom Toes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Moon,
DJ Sneak,
Chris & Cosey,
The Walker Brothers,
Ornette Coleman,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
The Skatalites,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
In Retrospect,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sparks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Shoche,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mandrill,
Darondo,
Hot Snakes,
Gong,
Fatback Band,
Alton Ellis,
Tomorrow,
Pere Ubu,
Amon Düül II,
Black Pus,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Y Pants,
AZ,
Bob Dylan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Surgeon,
Kerrie Biddell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
The Saints,
Porter Ricks,
Lightning Bolt,
Toni Rubio,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.