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 San Marino and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Eve St. Jones to the techno 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Sex Pistols,
Harmonia,
Davy DMX,
This Heat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Coltrane,
Delta 5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Popol Vuh,
Juan Atkins,
Television Personalities,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alton Ellis,
KRS-One,
X-101,
kango's stein massive,
Amazonics,
Todd Rundgren,
New Order,
Rapeman,
Aloha Tigers,
Pantytec,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Slits,
Adolescents,
Franke,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fuzztones,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
Iggy Pop,
EPMD,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lucky Dragons,
the Germs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Reuben Wilson,
Andrew Hill,
Urselle,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
B.T. Express,
Anakelly,
The Sonics,
the Sonics,
Mr. Review,
The Human League,
Soft Machine,
The Fire Engines,
48th St. Collective,
The New Christs,
JFA,
Black Pus,
Camouflage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yusef Lateef,
Shoche,
The Vogues,
Deepchord,
the Human League,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.