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 Czech Republic and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 H. Thieme to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Black Sheep,
Mandrill,
Parry Music,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bauhaus,
Lalann,
The Dave Clark Five,
KRS-One,
Youth Brigade,
Letta Mbulu,
Barrington Levy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Second Layer,
Delta 5,
Avey Tare,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cowsills,
The Doors,
Hasil Adkins,
Icehouse,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang of Four,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Misunderstood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Zapp,
The Kinks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Accadde A,
Sister Nancy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Pop Group,
Derrick May,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Massinfluence,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tommy Roe,
New Age Steppers,
X-102,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Skatalites,
Black Flag,
Kenny Larkin,
Yazoo,
Bootsy Collins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Swell Maps,
The Monochrome Set,
Deepchord,
Kurtis Blow,
Al Stewart,
Thompson Twins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pagans,
The Wake,
The Grass Roots,
Althea and Donna,
The Dirtbombs,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.