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 Kiribati and from Lille.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rod Modell to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Blancmange,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Offenders,
Suburban Knight,
Danielle Patucci,
Man Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marc Almond,
FM Einheit,
Dual Sessions,
8 Eyed Spy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Minor Threat,
The Dave Clark Five,
LL Cool J,
Marvin Gaye,
Animal Collective,
the Bar-Kays,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
X-101,
Jacob Miller,
Prince Buster,
Jeff Lynne,
Country Teasers,
Banda Bassotti,
Ten City,
Scion,
This Heat,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Barracudas,
Jerry's Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dorothy Ashby,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lucky Dragons,
Rotary Connection,
The Zeros,
Popol Vuh,
Little Man,
Sex Pistols,
The Tremeloes,
The Saints,
Bill Near,
Donald Byrd,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Five Americans,
The Golliwogs,
Erykah Badu,
Easy Going,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
F. McDonald,
Jeru the Damaja,
Quadrant,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.