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 Burkina and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Y Pants to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kaleidoscope,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marmalade,
Skaos,
Vainqueur,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Idris Muhammad,
Stereo Dub,
The Searchers,
The Divine Comedy,
The Star Department,
Dark Day,
Malaria!,
Excepter,
Donald Byrd,
John Cale,
Half Japanese,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Intrusion,
Panda Bear,
Black Moon,
Jesper Dahlback,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alice Coltrane,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Wolf Eyes,
Youth Brigade,
Jandek,
The Barracudas,
Avey Tare,
Franke,
Joy Division,
Arthur Verocai,
Juan Atkins,
Max Romeo,
This Heat,
Silicon Teens,
DNA,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Section 25,
Trumans Water,
Sixth Finger,
The Motions,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
E-Dancer,
Todd Terry,
Terry Callier,
Chris Corsano,
The Cure,
Soft Machine,
Lungfish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Saccharine Trust,
Pussy Galore,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jawbox,
Groovy Waters,
The Beau Brummels,
The Golliwogs,
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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.