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 Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 A Certain Ratio to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Remains. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
The Stooges,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
ABC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Durutti Column,
Ossler,
Soulsonic Force,
Janne Schatter,
Los Fastidios,
Arcadia,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
JFA,
Spoonie Gee,
Tom Boy,
Deepchord,
The Golliwogs,
The Young Rascals,
Colin Newman,
Althea and Donna,
Lyres,
The Velvet Underground,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Doors,
Fort Wilson Riot,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Amazonics,
Al Stewart,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Names,
Liliput,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultravox,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lucky Dragons,
Steve Hackett,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Normal,
Country Teasers,
Jandek,
Curtis Mayfield,
Derrick Morgan,
Roxette,
New Age Steppers,
Sound Behaviour,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Groovy Waters,
Pantaleimon,
The Martian,
Joy Division,
Eric Dolphy,
Scan 7,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Underground Resistance,
Sparks,
The Buckinghams,
Barrington Levy,
Erasure,
Arthur Verocai,
The Raincoats,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.