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 Libya and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes 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 Young Rascals to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Cheater Slicks,
One Last Wish,
Franke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Patti Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Litter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
Altered Images,
Peter & Gordon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tears for Fears,
La Düsseldorf,
Scientists,
Mantronix,
LL Cool J,
Rakim,
The Move,
Fat Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wally Richardson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Silicon Teens,
Mr. Review,
Chrome,
cv313,
The Star Department,
The Names,
Albert Ayler,
Harry Pussy,
Bush Tetras,
Zapp,
David Axelrod,
Aswad,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
Brass Construction,
Man Parrish,
The Buckinghams,
In Retrospect,
Panda Bear,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Index,
Stockholm Monsters,
Moby Grape,
The Velvet Underground,
Donny Hathaway,
Skaos,
Cameo,
Andrew Hill,
The Moody Blues,
CMW,
Morten Harket,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pop Group,
a-ha,
Rites of Spring,
Warren Ellis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.