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 East Timor and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flamin' Groovies to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
In Retrospect,
Gregory Isaacs,
The New Christs,
Lucky Dragons,
Nas,
Howard Jones,
Morten Harket,
Pagans,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bang On A Can,
Glenn Branca,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Boogie Down Productions,
James White and The Blacks,
Accadde A,
Byron Stingily,
Television,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Donald Byrd,
Supertramp,
Tres Demented,
Slick Rick,
Pantytec,
China Crisis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dave Gahan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Velvet Underground,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Invisible,
Duran Duran,
Bush Tetras,
Brass Construction,
Alice Coltrane,
Prince Buster,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Simply Red,
Liliput,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare,
Mandrill,
Ultimate Spinach,
Amon Düül,
Black Pus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Associates,
Lalann,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.