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 Montenegro and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Al Stewart to the funk 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Happenings,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Womack,
Davy DMX,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Sonics,
Gabor Szabo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Funkadelic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Prince Buster,
Man Eating Sloth,
Drexciya,
Angry Samoans,
Zero Boys,
Anakelly,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gichy Dan,
Eden Ahbez,
Brass Construction,
The Young Rascals,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Easy Going,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fugazi,
Minutemen,
Alice Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cramps,
Arcadia,
The Wake,
Lyres,
Sandy B,
Pantaleimon,
Massinfluence,
Mandrill,
The Seeds,
Desert Stars,
Suicide,
Fatback Band,
Erykah Badu,
JFA,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang Starr,
Fear,
Rekid,
Black Pus,
Sex Pistols,
The Fall,
Mary Jane Girls,
Alphaville,
Nils Olav,
Sound Behaviour,
The Zeros,
Camouflage,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Siglo XX,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Index,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.