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 Angola and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
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 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 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 Cluster to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Model 500,
Public Enemy,
Ken Boothe,
Aural Exciters,
Fugazi,
Tres Demented,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grey Daturas,
The Fortunes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radiohead,
LL Cool J,
Moebius,
Popol Vuh,
Prince Buster,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fuzztones,
the Normal,
Television Personalities,
Amon Düül,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scion,
This Heat,
Thee Headcoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Patti Smith,
The Raincoats,
Swans,
Bush Tetras,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Peter & Gordon,
D'Angelo,
Malaria!,
John Cale,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Danielle Patucci,
The Doors,
The Cure,
The Move,
Rekid,
X-101,
Nils Olav,
Tubeway Army,
Brothers Johnson,
Yazoo,
Stetsasonic,
cv313,
X-102,
Echospace,
Skriet,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Moon,
Buzzcocks,
The Selecter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kevin Saunderson,
Symarip,
the Human League,
Bobby Byrd,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.