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 Solomon Islands and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Lou Reed 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 CMW to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Absolute Body Control,
Kaleidoscope,
Brand Nubian,
Excepter,
Saccharine Trust,
H. Thieme,
Young Marble Giants,
Roger Hodgson,
Organ,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeff Mills,
The Barracudas,
New York Dolls,
New Age Steppers,
Jeff Lynne,
Prince Buster,
Soulsonic Force,
DJ Sneak,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joe Smooth,
Trumans Water,
The Last Poets,
Warren Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Moon,
Eve St. Jones,
Au Pairs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lower 48,
Letta Mbulu,
Barry Ungar,
Slave,
Pulsallama,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Saints,
Alice Coltrane,
Stereo Dub,
Joyce Sims,
Marshall Jefferson,
Los Fastidios,
Silicon Teens,
Anakelly,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Halsall,
Magma,
The Slackers,
Tears for Fears,
FM Einheit,
The Sisters of Mercy,
kango's stein massive,
Das Ding,
Albert Ayler,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mojo Men,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Model 500,
Johnny Clarke,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.