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 Colombia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gang Gang Dance to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Jerry's Kids,
Los Fastidios,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bob Dylan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Adolescents,
Lebanon Hanover,
Magazine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gang of Four,
The Blackbyrds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moebius,
Erykah Badu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Reagan Youth,
Skarface,
Absolute Body Control,
Intrusion,
Blancmange,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bronski Beat,
Ultravox,
Michelle Simonal,
The Smiths,
Saccharine Trust,
The Human League,
The Evens,
Whodini,
Make Up,
Funky Four + One,
Blake Baxter,
Anthony Braxton,
Kerri Chandler,
Sugar Minott,
Q and Not U,
Quadrant,
Infiniti,
One Last Wish,
Reuben Wilson,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Monochrome Set,
Audionom,
Nirvana,
Alison Limerick,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stereo Dub,
Ice-T,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sister Nancy,
the Bar-Kays,
Mars,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joensuu 1685,
The Last Poets,
The Sound,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.