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 Micronesia and from Portland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the electroclash 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Von Mondo,
The United States of America,
Inner City,
Soulsonic Force,
Circle Jerks,
Supertramp,
Symarip,
Bob Dylan,
Archie Shepp,
Matthew Halsall,
MC5,
Peter & Gordon,
Alice Coltrane,
Wire,
Fat Boys,
Erasure,
Danielle Patucci,
Bluetip,
The Invisible,
Sister Nancy,
Brothers Johnson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sandy B,
Average White Band,
Dave Gahan,
Deakin,
Wolf Eyes,
Lyres,
Alton Ellis,
Spandau Ballet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Silicon Teens,
X-101,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Peter and Kerry,
L. Decosne,
Swans,
Connie Case,
The Star Department,
Cecil Taylor,
The Names,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Smiths,
The Misunderstood,
Procol Harum,
MDC,
Arcadia,
Funky Four + One,
Scion,
Bobby Sherman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jerry's Kids,
Spoonie Gee,
Cluster,
The Residents,
Black Bananas,
La Düsseldorf,
Flamin' Groovies,
Oblivians,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.