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 Azerbaijan and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
The Buckinghams,
Barry Ungar,
The Fuzztones,
David Axelrod,
This Heat,
These Immortal Souls,
Nils Olav,
the Swans,
Nick Fraelich,
Zapp,
Lakeside,
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Bill Near,
Talk Talk,
Aural Exciters,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Bananas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The United States of America,
Rhythm & Sound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ken Boothe,
Rufus Thomas,
Rakim,
Kurtis Blow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slits,
John Holt,
Soulsonic Force,
OOIOO,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unrelated Segments,
Tears for Fears,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
The Misunderstood,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Star Department,
Stockholm Monsters,
Avey Tare,
Ronan,
Barrington Levy,
The Fortunes,
Colin Newman,
Stetsasonic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Standells,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dirtbombs,
The Moody Blues,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sam Rivers,
Warren Ellis,
X-Ray Spex,
Soft Cell,
Slick Rick,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.