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 Dominica and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum 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 Minor Threat to the jazz 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
New Age Steppers,
The Pretty Things,
Joensuu 1685,
Simply Red,
Black Bananas,
Stiv Bators,
Goldenarms,
Loose Ends,
Barbara Tucker,
Big Daddy Kane,
Second Layer,
Yazoo,
Khruangbin,
Main Source,
Soft Machine,
Section 25,
Index,
Lucky Dragons,
Harmonia,
Deepchord,
The Sonics,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Davy DMX,
Vladislav Delay,
The Saints,
L. Decosne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grauzone,
Magma,
Yaz,
Amon Düül II,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Count Five,
Roxette,
Lou Reed,
Al Stewart,
Gregory Isaacs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soft Cell,
John Lydon,
Mars,
Oblivians,
Hot Snakes,
Make Up,
the Bar-Kays,
Tubeway Army,
The Knickerbockers,
Stetsasonic,
Sparks,
Glenn Branca,
Cal Tjader,
Bluetip,
The Fugs,
Unrelated Segments,
Dead Boys,
Smog,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ten City,
Altered Images,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pylon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.