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 Vanuatu and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord 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 The Skatalites to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Velvet Underground,
Niagra,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marine Girls,
The Last Poets,
Tom Boy,
Stiv Bators,
The Human League,
Isaac Hayes,
Average White Band,
Ohio Players,
The Names,
The Victims,
Yazoo,
The Cramps,
Ultimate Spinach,
Aural Exciters,
The Knickerbockers,
Thee Headcoats,
World's Most,
Reagan Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Skriet,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wire,
Matthew Halsall,
Dawn Penn,
Moss Icon,
Soft Machine,
Michelle Simonal,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pagans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
PIL,
Cal Tjader,
Groovy Waters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Heaven 17,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
UT,
Lungfish,
The Saints,
Second Layer,
Ice-T,
Sight & Sound,
Rapeman,
Drexciya,
The Detroit Cobras,
Technova,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anthony Braxton,
Boz Scaggs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sandy B,
Boredoms,
Surgeon,
Soulsonic Force,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sister Nancy,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.