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 Cape Verde and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harmonia,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Blues Magoos,
Eddi Front,
Graham Central Station,
Davy DMX,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masters at Work,
Chris & Cosey,
Pantaleimon,
Arab on Radar,
The Mummies,
Can,
The Motions,
The Searchers,
Ornette Coleman,
the Slits,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Music Machine,
Crooked Eye,
Barclay James Harvest,
Adolescents,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thompson Twins,
Arcadia,
the Fania All-Stars,
One Last Wish,
Howard Jones,
Animal Collective,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gun Club,
Brick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Judy Mowatt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Zero Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
Robert Görl,
Agitation Free,
E-Dancer,
The Walker Brothers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siglo XX,
Smog,
Parry Music,
Clear Light,
Q and Not U,
Erasure,
Loose Ends,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lucky Dragons,
Fela Kuti,
Goldenarms,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.