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 Ecuador and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Idris Muhammad to the techno 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Graham Central Station,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pierre Henry,
DNA,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
Sixth Finger,
The Stooges,
Robert Görl,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
New Order,
Pet Shop Boys,
Electric Prunes,
Angry Samoans,
Television Personalities,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lucky Dragons,
Little Man,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Leonard Cohen,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Ornette Coleman,
Adolescents,
T. Rex,
Joyce Sims,
A Flock of Seagulls,
UT,
Drexciya,
Deakin,
Hashim,
The Techniques,
Wally Richardson,
Peter and Kerry,
Cymande,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Godley & Creme,
ABC,
Tom Boy,
The Gun Club,
Magma,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mandrill,
Fela Kuti,
Minnie Riperton,
The Happenings,
Negative Approach,
Blake Baxter,
The Real Kids,
Malaria!,
The Raincoats,
Don Cherry,
The Velvet Underground,
John Lydon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Golliwogs,
Q and Not U,
Lower 48,
Livin' Joy,
Gang Green,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.