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 Zambia 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nation of Ulysses 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Lee Hazlewood,
This Heat,
Sex Pistols,
Warren Ellis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dennis Brown,
Thee Headcoats,
Groovy Waters,
Skarface,
the Human League,
LL Cool J,
Newcleus,
Ituana,
Anakelly,
Black Moon,
The Fortunes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Hashim,
Vainqueur,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
X-102,
The Gories,
Roy Ayers,
Swell Maps,
Porter Ricks,
Joensuu 1685,
Marvin Gaye,
The Busters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
Scan 7,
Gong,
The Moleskins,
Theoretical Girls,
Dead Boys,
The Dead C,
World's Most,
Magazine,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Heaven 17,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mission of Burma,
Connie Case,
The Pop Group,
Dual Sessions,
Spoonie Gee,
Lightning Bolt,
New Order,
The Gun Club,
Soulsonic Force,
The Standells,
Joe Smooth,
In Retrospect,
Infiniti,
The Raincoats,
Whodini,
Matthew Bourne,
Amazonics,
Hoover,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.