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 New Zealand and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Knickerbockers to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Japan,
DJ Style,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Fugs,
June of 44,
The Litter,
Surgeon,
Soulsonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Babytalk,
Dave Gahan,
Morten Harket,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rites of Spring,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Blackbyrds,
Simply Red,
Depeche Mode,
Section 25,
The Flesh Eaters,
Toni Rubio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Associates,
Lindisfarne,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Happenings,
These Immortal Souls,
Deakin,
Gang of Four,
Visage,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mantronix,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Half Japanese,
Harmonia,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gang Starr,
The Zeros,
Altered Images,
The Leaves,
Derrick May,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Five Americans,
Sugar Minott,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
David McCallum,
Tim Buckley,
Tears for Fears,
The Searchers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brick,
Unrelated Segments,
Icehouse,
Camberwell Now,
Gang Green,
Marmalade,
Television,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.