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 Denmark and from Accra.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pantytec to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
Shoche,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brand Nubian,
The Happenings,
Brass Construction,
Cybotron,
MC5,
The Slackers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Associates,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dawn Penn,
Lakeside,
Talk Talk,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Judy Mowatt,
Lalo Schifrin,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Remains,
The Gun Club,
Stereo Dub,
The Cure,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eden Ahbez,
Porter Ricks,
Parry Music,
the Sonics,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Newcleus,
Ponytail,
OOIOO,
Fatback Band,
Subhumans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Reuben Wilson,
Sixth Finger,
A Certain Ratio,
The Buckinghams,
Jandek,
B.T. Express,
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
The New Christs,
The Monks,
Derrick Morgan,
Morten Harket,
Youth Brigade,
Zapp,
Moss Icon,
Lyres,
Kurtis Blow,
Josef K,
The Doobie Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
Gang Starr,
Chrome,
Jeff Lynne,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.