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 Finland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe 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 Martian to the crunk 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Von Mondo,
Anakelly,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sugar Minott,
The Skatalites,
Warren Ellis,
The Zeros,
Loose Ends,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Monolake,
Deakin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
World's Most,
Jacob Miller,
Marshall Jefferson,
X-101,
The Velvet Underground,
Steve Hackett,
Barbara Tucker,
Kenny Larkin,
The Doors,
Moss Icon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Finger,
Eden Ahbez,
Inner City,
Danielle Patucci,
Erykah Badu,
Lebanon Hanover,
Big Daddy Kane,
Davy DMX,
Reagan Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
Suburban Knight,
Simply Red,
E-Dancer,
Technova,
Joe Smooth,
Sam Rivers,
Hashim,
Lee Hazlewood,
Liliput,
Dennis Brown,
The Pop Group,
This Heat,
The Human League,
Country Teasers,
Ossler,
Albert Ayler,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Urselle,
Minutemen,
Al Stewart,
Parry Music,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cal Tjader,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.