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 Estonia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Shadows of Knight to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Vogues,
Anthony Braxton,
Amazonics,
Ornette Coleman,
Bad Manners,
Slave,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Index,
Althea and Donna,
Depeche Mode,
Slick Rick,
Au Pairs,
Ronan,
Vainqueur,
Icehouse,
Schoolly D,
Scion,
Joyce Sims,
Funky Four + One,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stetsasonic,
Swans,
Reuben Wilson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Christie,
Cameo,
Joe Finger,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fuzztones,
K-Klass,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dennis Brown,
Funkadelic,
Inner City,
The Shadows of Knight,
Boz Scaggs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marine Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Arab on Radar,
Quadrant,
Marvin Gaye,
Donny Hathaway,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Moon,
Eurythmics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Drexciya,
Supertramp,
Alphaville,
Sight & Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Kerri Chandler,
Fela Kuti,
New Order,
Soulsonic Force,
Porter Ricks,
the Slits,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.