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 Dominican Republic and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Maurizio to the electroclash 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Aural Exciters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Essential Logic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lyres,
Mantronix,
Organ,
Spandau Ballet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gang Starr,
Radiohead,
Neil Young,
Pere Ubu,
The Beau Brummels,
Mad Mike,
Wally Richardson,
Massinfluence,
Lungfish,
Davy DMX,
The Durutti Column,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Y Pants,
B.T. Express,
Wasted Youth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gories,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fat Boys,
Urselle,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobby Womack,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tubeway Army,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Von Mondo,
Marvin Gaye,
Tomorrow,
Juan Atkins,
Theoretical Girls,
10cc,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sixth Finger,
Lakeside,
Sun City Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yusef Lateef,
Qualms,
Mandrill,
Das Ding,
Boredoms,
Matthew Halsall,
Amazonics,
Hashim,
Sonny Sharrock,
Radio Birdman,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.