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 Botswana and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro 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 Mission of Burma to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Absolute Body Control,
Deakin,
Fugazi,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Real Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
Nirvana,
Moss Icon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pagans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ronan,
Neu!,
Sam Rivers,
Matthew Bourne,
Arab on Radar,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Visage,
Aswad,
David Axelrod,
Minor Threat,
Anthony Braxton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eddi Front,
Jacob Miller,
The Alarm Clocks,
Skriet,
Piero Umiliani,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Juan Atkins,
Archie Shepp,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marc Almond,
Eric Copeland,
Circle Jerks,
The Associates,
Smog,
Hoover,
Man Eating Sloth,
Amon Düül,
Gregory Isaacs,
Duran Duran,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chrome,
Soulsonic Force,
The Knickerbockers,
Scion,
La Düsseldorf,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dave Gahan,
Angry Samoans,
Godley & Creme,
A Certain Ratio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sonic Youth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.