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 Estonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
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 sitar 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 Cybotron to the funk 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Franke,
The Star Department,
Barbara Tucker,
Minnie Riperton,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Mills,
The Dead C,
James White and The Blacks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Mark Hollis,
Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Sight & Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Stooges,
Gabor Szabo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Trumans Water,
Index,
Bobby Womack,
Bad Manners,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
R.M.O.,
The Golliwogs,
The Misunderstood,
Derrick Morgan,
The Skatalites,
June of 44,
Japan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eve St. Jones,
Funky Four + One,
Wasted Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
Sixth Finger,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Spoonie Gee,
Faraquet,
Black Bananas,
Erasure,
The Residents,
It's A Beautiful Day,
FM Einheit,
This Heat,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Public Enemy,
Talk Talk,
John Lydon,
Bush Tetras,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun Ra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Royal Trux,
Chrome,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.