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 Malawi and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Buzzcocks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Roger Hodgson,
the Soft Cell,
Deadbeat,
Fad Gadget,
Altered Images,
The Count Five,
EPMD,
The Searchers,
Byron Stingily,
Technova,
Hashim,
Donald Byrd,
Wolf Eyes,
Nirvana,
cv313,
Warsaw,
Agent Orange,
the Human League,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jandek,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Dirtbombs,
Eurythmics,
Albert Ayler,
KRS-One,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Can,
Niagra,
Kas Product,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tommy Roe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Parry Music,
Faraquet,
Alison Limerick,
Delon & Dalcan,
Davy DMX,
Sonic Youth,
Don Cherry,
Kerrie Biddell,
Qualms,
Whodini,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Toasters,
The Knickerbockers,
MDC,
Marc Almond,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sexual Harrassment,
Andrew Hill,
Urselle,
Carl Craig,
Jeru the Damaja,
Funky Four + One,
Marine Girls,
Theoretical Girls,
The American Breed,
Minutemen,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.