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 Manchester.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gong to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Whodini,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Clear Light,
Sugar Minott,
Toni Rubio,
The Smiths,
Dennis Brown,
Minor Threat,
Pole,
Tommy Roe,
Black Moon,
The Martian,
DJ Sneak,
Sonic Youth,
Basic Channel,
The Human League,
The American Breed,
Swans,
Tres Demented,
Nirvana,
Loose Ends,
LL Cool J,
Carl Craig,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crooked Eye,
Country Teasers,
Index,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris & Cosey,
Deepchord,
Gong,
The Beau Brummels,
Massinfluence,
Minutemen,
Neil Young,
Moss Icon,
Blancmange,
Ice-T,
Masters at Work,
Black Sheep,
Neu!,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radio Birdman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Human League,
Isaac Hayes,
John Cale,
The United States of America,
Eric Dolphy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Maurizio,
Hoover,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Livin' Joy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Arthur Verocai,
Kayak,
Idris Muhammad,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.