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 Japan and from Taipei.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 Banda Bassotti to the dance 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cramps,
Roy Ayers,
R.M.O.,
The Misunderstood,
Yaz,
Hasil Adkins,
CMW,
Porter Ricks,
Bob Dylan,
Agent Orange,
Colin Newman,
Tommy Roe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tim Buckley,
Sister Nancy,
Pylon,
Patti Smith,
Desert Stars,
Ken Boothe,
Clear Light,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeff Mills,
LL Cool J,
Brick,
The Modern Lovers,
Neu!,
Joy Division,
Derrick May,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Barracudas,
World's Most,
Wings,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Wyatt,
The Happenings,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rod Modell,
Chris & Cosey,
Monolake,
The Angels of Light,
Siglo XX,
Animal Collective,
China Crisis,
Vladislav Delay,
Absolute Body Control,
Au Pairs,
The Remains,
Tres Demented,
Warren Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nico,
Scan 7,
Donny Hathaway,
D'Angelo,
Black Flag,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dual Sessions,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.