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 Switzerland and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Halifax.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Spandau Ballet to the funk 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
The Slackers,
Thompson Twins,
Silicon Teens,
Cymande,
Moby Grape,
Technova,
Nirvana,
Ken Boothe,
Rekid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Leonard Cohen,
The Fall,
Delta 5,
Make Up,
Radiohead,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Echospace,
cv313,
Arcadia,
The Modern Lovers,
JFA,
Pierre Henry,
Section 25,
Todd Rundgren,
Minny Pops,
Liliput,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Invisible,
David McCallum,
Blake Baxter,
The New Christs,
The Wake,
Gong,
Sällskapet,
Fat Boys,
Vladislav Delay,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scott Walker,
R.M.O.,
Simply Red,
Average White Band,
Cluster,
The Smoke,
Drexciya,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Stetsasonic,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABBA,
Bad Manners,
The Vogues,
Guru Guru,
Idris Muhammad,
Fela Kuti,
The Mojo Men,
Crispy Ambulance,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.