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 Ukraine and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar 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 Avey Tare to the grime 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
the Swans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mission of Burma,
Robert Hood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Underground Resistance,
Nation of Ulysses,
China Crisis,
Hasil Adkins,
The Count Five,
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Green,
Simply Red,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Techniques,
Motorama,
cv313,
a-ha,
Bootsy Collins,
The Toasters,
Joey Negro,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Donny Hathaway,
Neu!,
New York Dolls,
Intrusion,
Ornette Coleman,
A Certain Ratio,
Cybotron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Association,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Smooth,
Dark Day,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fuzztones,
The J.B.'s,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alphaville,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deepchord,
The Blues Magoos,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Patti Smith,
Circle Jerks,
The New Christs,
Moss Icon,
The Move,
Maleditus Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Image Ltd.,
D'Angelo,
Danielle Patucci,
James White and The Blacks,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.