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 Lithuania and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Flash Fearless to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Roger Hodgson,
Connie Case,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sugar Minott,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crash Course in Science,
X-102,
John Cale,
The Fire Engines,
Henry Cow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barry Ungar,
Soft Cell,
Audionom,
Hoover,
Minor Threat,
The Victims,
Isaac Hayes,
Amon Düül,
Main Source,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Urselle,
Gabor Szabo,
X-Ray Spex,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gichy Dan,
Minny Pops,
Black Flag,
Jerry's Kids,
Simply Red,
Depeche Mode,
Stereo Dub,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Chrome,
Brick,
Derrick Morgan,
Roxette,
Japan,
Index,
Talk Talk,
Thee Headcoats,
Unwound,
Swans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Underground Resistance,
Massinfluence,
New Order,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Au Pairs,
Young Marble Giants,
Make Up,
China Crisis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yazoo,
Echospace,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun Ra,
Sonny Sharrock,
Maurizio,
Fear,
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.