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 Chile and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 Chrome to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Scientists,
PIL,
Public Enemy,
Tom Boy,
Eli Mardock,
The Victims,
Bill Wells,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lightning Bolt,
Delon & Dalcan,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radiohead,
Trumans Water,
Morten Harket,
Lakeside,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Dolphy,
The Grass Roots,
The Moleskins,
The Gap Band,
Yazoo,
Amon Düül II,
The Barracudas,
The Real Kids,
Excepter,
The Moody Blues,
Groovy Waters,
Cybotron,
Peter & Gordon,
Adolescents,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Darondo,
Fat Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fugs,
Amazonics,
Ice-T,
Television Personalities,
Todd Rundgren,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rites of Spring,
Aaron Thompson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxy Music,
Fela Kuti,
Sound Behaviour,
Zapp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Residents,
Youth Brigade,
Piero Umiliani,
Soft Machine,
The Trojans,
Silicon Teens,
The Move,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.