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 Cyprus and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Ronan to the funk 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Roger Hodgson,
The Slackers,
The Selecter,
Model 500,
The United States of America,
Darondo,
Todd Terry,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jawbox,
Nik Kershaw,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
8 Eyed Spy,
A Certain Ratio,
Eurythmics,
Little Man,
Gichy Dan,
In Retrospect,
Maleditus Sound,
Byron Stingily,
The Mummies,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Golliwogs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pantytec,
FM Einheit,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Grass Roots,
The Moleskins,
Joey Negro,
Brand Nubian,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The New Christs,
Crash Course in Science,
Nas,
The Misunderstood,
Pylon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stetsasonic,
Bronski Beat,
David Bowie,
Sun City Girls,
Can,
Sixth Finger,
Henry Cow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Inner City,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
Pagans,
Lucky Dragons,
Au Pairs,
Dead Boys,
Charles Mingus,
MC5,
Deakin,
The Angels of Light,
The Beau Brummels,
The Human League,
Quantec,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.