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 Armenia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jeff Lynne to the crunk 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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Dead Boys,
Agitation Free,
Stereo Dub,
Rhythm & Sound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Warren Ellis,
Altered Images,
Reuben Wilson,
Dual Sessions,
Pussy Galore,
Wasted Youth,
Todd Terry,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bob Dylan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yellowson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Niagra,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bang On A Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Soulsonic Force,
The Searchers,
Danielle Patucci,
Slave,
Index,
Rosa Yemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dark Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cameo,
Icehouse,
Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Smiths,
Goldenarms,
The Angels of Light,
The Happenings,
Graham Central Station,
Main Source,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lalann,
Lou Reed,
Con Funk Shun,
Stetsasonic,
Agent Orange,
Dawn Penn,
Outsiders,
Eddi Front,
The Techniques,
Moss Icon,
Nas,
Pantytec,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bad Manners,
Ultimate Spinach,
Guru Guru,
Maurizio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.