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 Finland and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Young Marble Giants to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Absolute Body Control,
Goldenarms,
The Velvet Underground,
Sixth Finger,
Dual Sessions,
Maleditus Sound,
Can,
Panda Bear,
Scrapy,
The Modern Lovers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tropical Tobacco,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse,
Make Up,
Boz Scaggs,
The Vogues,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Liliput,
K-Klass,
Ituana,
Ponytail,
ABC,
The Shadows of Knight,
DNA,
Avey Tare,
Gang Green,
Interpol,
Andrew Hill,
The Mummies,
Tomorrow,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Carl Craig,
Cameo,
Excepter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Clear Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Byrd,
Brass Construction,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fortunes,
Max Romeo,
Howard Jones,
Young Marble Giants,
Wolf Eyes,
Cymande,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scratch Acid,
Outsiders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Arab on Radar,
The Cure,
The Toasters,
Joe Finger,
Marine Girls,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.