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 France and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 Technova to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Bobby Byrd,
Faust,
Glambeats Corp.,
Morten Harket,
John Foxx,
Talk Talk,
The Birthday Party,
The Raincoats,
Infiniti,
Eddi Front,
Donny Hathaway,
Michelle Simonal,
Sister Nancy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pantaleimon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nico,
the Sonics,
Fat Boys,
The Cramps,
Trumans Water,
Anthony Braxton,
Bluetip,
Wasted Youth,
Marine Girls,
Excepter,
The Dead C,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joyce Sims,
Graham Central Station,
Wire,
Charles Mingus,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flash Fearless,
Barbara Tucker,
Monolake,
Fear,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Toni Rubio,
Black Flag,
The Invisible,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Chris Corsano,
The Golliwogs,
Pere Ubu,
Silicon Teens,
Wings,
Metal Thangz,
Ultra Naté,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Bananas,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.