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 Chile and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Quantec to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Kinks,
Reuben Wilson,
The Neon Judgement,
Fad Gadget,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lungfish,
Drexciya,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Happenings,
Silicon Teens,
Sun Ra,
Royal Trux,
Moss Icon,
Heaven 17,
Porter Ricks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Alton Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tom Boy,
Rod Modell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alison Limerick,
Isaac Hayes,
Roy Ayers,
Schoolly D,
Agitation Free,
U.S. Maple,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
cv313,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonic Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Althea and Donna,
Gang of Four,
Tommy Roe,
The Associates,
Warsaw,
The Saints,
FM Einheit,
Harpers Bizarre,
Visage,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marc Almond,
Sällskapet,
Sugar Minott,
Oneida,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Little Man,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Matthew Bourne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nico,
Marmalade,
Brothers Johnson,
Gang Green,
The Durutti Column,
Youth Brigade,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nas,
Cheater Slicks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.