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 Algeria and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Livin' Joy to the rock 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Blossom Toes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shoche,
Steve Hackett,
D'Angelo,
The J.B.'s,
Minnie Riperton,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Copeland,
H. Thieme,
Television,
The Beau Brummels,
Roxy Music,
Scan 7,
Blancmange,
Ronnie Foster,
The Leaves,
The Associates,
Pantaleimon,
The Star Department,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Smiths,
Gabor Szabo,
Tommy Roe,
Lakeside,
Nick Fraelich,
Animal Collective,
Easy Going,
Peter & Gordon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yazoo,
This Heat,
AZ,
The Birthday Party,
Surgeon,
Archie Shepp,
Joe Smooth,
Silicon Teens,
China Crisis,
Jerry's Kids,
Duran Duran,
Marvin Gaye,
Scratch Acid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Godley & Creme,
Country Teasers,
Fear,
The United States of America,
Mark Hollis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Rapeman,
Agent Orange,
Audionom,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.