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 Paraguay and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Todd Terry to the punk 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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalann,
Marc Almond,
Dark Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Index,
June Days,
Cybotron,
EPMD,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Drexciya,
Jerry's Kids,
John Coltrane,
Althea and Donna,
Nas,
Scion,
The J.B.'s,
The Skatalites,
Funkadelic,
The Last Poets,
Nico,
Black Moon,
Make Up,
Chris Corsano,
Minny Pops,
Lucky Dragons,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Electric Prunes,
Sun City Girls,
The Martian,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Barracudas,
Soft Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Motions,
Dual Sessions,
Spoonie Gee,
Newcleus,
The Saints,
Lou Reed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arthur Verocai,
The Kinks,
The Cure,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
La Düsseldorf,
Avey Tare,
Radio Birdman,
Interpol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Brand Nubian,
Pulsallama,
The Blackbyrds,
Cheater Slicks,
June of 44,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash,
Godley & Creme,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.