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 Korea North and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 theremin 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 The Monochrome Set to the electroclash 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Connie Case,
Traffic Nightmare,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Association,
Monks,
The Star Department,
Amon Düül,
Andrew Hill,
Peter & Gordon,
June of 44,
Chris Corsano,
Kayak,
The Move,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Divine Comedy,
Inner City,
E-Dancer,
Banda Bassotti,
Unwound,
Fugazi,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radio Birdman,
Mars,
Lightning Bolt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Flamin' Groovies,
Excepter,
Guru Guru,
The Birthday Party,
D'Angelo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy Collins,
Kurtis Blow,
The Cure,
Robert Görl,
Marshall Jefferson,
Moby Grape,
Eurythmics,
Althea and Donna,
Boz Scaggs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tears for Fears,
Matthew Bourne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Motorama,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Junior Murvin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sonic Youth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Techniques,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eli Mardock,
Gabor Szabo,
Danielle Patucci,
Morten Harket,
The Detroit Cobras,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.