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 Korea South and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Al Stewart 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
48th St. Collective,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
Popol Vuh,
Leonard Cohen,
The Skatalites,
The Wake,
Scan 7,
Matthew Halsall,
Alphaville,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DNA,
The Mojo Men,
the Human League,
Wire,
Mr. Review,
Skaos,
Public Enemy,
Gichy Dan,
The Fugs,
Mad Mike,
Agitation Free,
Deadbeat,
Masters at Work,
Monks,
Chris Corsano,
The Sound,
DJ Sneak,
FM Einheit,
The Monochrome Set,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Animal Collective,
Johnny Clarke,
Make Up,
ABC,
Soft Cell,
Jawbox,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gap Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Count Five,
Television Personalities,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mantronix,
Reagan Youth,
Chris & Cosey,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Black Dice,
Bronski Beat,
Subhumans,
Lakeside,
The Alarm Clocks,
Juan Atkins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kas Product,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
the Swans,
Los Fastidios,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.