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 Libya and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba 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 Pet Shop Boys to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Mojo Men,
Mars,
In Retrospect,
Goldenarms,
Dave Gahan,
Das Ding,
Average White Band,
Pylon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kaleidoscope,
The Leaves,
The Gun Club,
Darondo,
Susan Cadogan,
Fear,
Frankie Knuckles,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Easy Going,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jacob Miller,
Absolute Body Control,
Japan,
Skaos,
Pharoah Sanders,
Andrew Hill,
Joe Finger,
Index,
CMW,
Chrome,
Saccharine Trust,
Nas,
Alison Limerick,
The Slits,
Marc Almond,
Pere Ubu,
Subhumans,
Alton Ellis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABC,
Black Pus,
Connie Case,
Amon Düül II,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brass Construction,
Jawbox,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Half Japanese,
Soft Cell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Liliput,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bootsy Collins,
48th St. Collective,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.