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 Brazil and from Bremen.
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 Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 UT to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Anthony Braxton,
Sight & Sound,
The Music Machine,
Mandrill,
Symarip,
The Motions,
Scratch Acid,
Sparks,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Index,
Iggy Pop,
Depeche Mode,
Vainqueur,
Rapeman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
Arab on Radar,
One Last Wish,
Rotary Connection,
The Red Krayola,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Byrd,
Lee Hazlewood,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skriet,
In Retrospect,
The Young Rascals,
Sixth Finger,
Trumans Water,
Agitation Free,
Sun City Girls,
John Foxx,
The Associates,
Eric Dolphy,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sonic Youth,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Beau Brummels,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Popol Vuh,
Sugar Minott,
Theoretical Girls,
The Smiths,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echospace,
Lower 48,
Nik Kershaw,
Shuggie Otis,
Crime,
Oblivians,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cal Tjader,
Jesper Dahlback,
Average White Band,
Pylon,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Youth Brigade,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.