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 Niger and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk 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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Rod Modell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minny Pops,
Panda Bear,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Monolake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nas,
Grandmaster Flash,
X-102,
The Raincoats,
The Beau Brummels,
cv313,
Animal Collective,
JFA,
The Real Kids,
Smog,
Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
Ultra Naté,
Erasure,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Electric Prunes,
Mark Hollis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Radiopuhelimet,
Organ,
Agitation Free,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Fuzztones,
The Human League,
Don Cherry,
Radiohead,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marmalade,
Underground Resistance,
Flamin' Groovies,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Toasters,
David McCallum,
Charles Mingus,
Ice-T,
the Fania All-Stars,
Donald Byrd,
Todd Rundgren,
Tres Demented,
Sex Pistols,
10cc,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marvin Gaye,
Johnny Osbourne,
Deepchord,
China Crisis,
Suicide,
Hardrive,
Unwound,
Juan Atkins,
Ultravox,
Terrestrial Tones,
Toni Rubio,
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.