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 Thailand and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fatback Band to the crunk 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
Minutemen,
Black Bananas,
Moebius,
Ralphi Rosario,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lungfish,
Malaria!,
Qualms,
Excepter,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
One Last Wish,
Scrapy,
Crash Course in Science,
Skriet,
Mars,
Bootsy Collins,
U.S. Maple,
The Knickerbockers,
Quadrant,
Procol Harum,
The Misunderstood,
The United States of America,
New Order,
Colin Newman,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
The Vogues,
Eli Mardock,
L. Decosne,
Mark Hollis,
The Pretty Things,
Chris & Cosey,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soulsonic Force,
Simply Red,
Boz Scaggs,
Au Pairs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ludus,
The Litter,
Talk Talk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Prince Buster,
The Searchers,
Ten City,
Nils Olav,
Khruangbin,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Byrd,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kayak,
The Cramps,
Saccharine Trust,
Janne Schatter,
This Heat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare,
Porter Ricks,
Massinfluence,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.