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 Oman and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Sister Nancy to the electroclash 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Leaves,
Buzzcocks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jerry's Kids,
Jandek,
Hoover,
Leonard Cohen,
Boredoms,
DJ Sneak,
The Dave Clark Five,
FM Einheit,
The Tremeloes,
Scan 7,
Bobby Byrd,
Althea and Donna,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Henry Cow,
Blossom Toes,
Pantytec,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nik Kershaw,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The New Christs,
The Real Kids,
Eve St. Jones,
The Monochrome Set,
Joensuu 1685,
Eddi Front,
Pole,
Jeff Mills,
Pylon,
Nico,
Tommy Roe,
The Stooges,
Michelle Simonal,
David Axelrod,
Wasted Youth,
Inner City,
Icehouse,
Alton Ellis,
Television Personalities,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
In Retrospect,
Derrick May,
Average White Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wings,
The Vogues,
Groovy Waters,
the Bar-Kays,
Marvin Gaye,
Danielle Patucci,
Rapeman,
Minny Pops,
Tim Buckley,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.