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 Serbia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the funk 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Matthew Bourne,
Mad Mike,
Blake Baxter,
Nick Fraelich,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bootsy Collins,
FM Einheit,
New York Dolls,
In Retrospect,
Cymande,
Kerri Chandler,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Neon Judgement,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Oblivians,
K-Klass,
Audionom,
David McCallum,
Blossom Toes,
Gichy Dan,
U.S. Maple,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scientists,
World's Most,
ABBA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moss Icon,
Bob Dylan,
Deakin,
Susan Cadogan,
The Smiths,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
These Immortal Souls,
Fear,
Aural Exciters,
Cameo,
the Germs,
Fela Kuti,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Vladislav Delay,
Black Sheep,
The Human League,
the Association,
EPMD,
Buzzcocks,
Thompson Twins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Essential Logic,
Clear Light,
Rekid,
Sound Behaviour,
The Smoke,
X-102,
Hoover,
Joe Finger,
Reagan Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.