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 Fiji and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Swans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Roxette,
MDC,
Tubeway Army,
Ice-T,
Radiopuhelimet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gap Band,
Severed Heads,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Popol Vuh,
Symarip,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warren Ellis,
Wally Richardson,
Eve St. Jones,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Average White Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Buckinghams,
Lower 48,
Angry Samoans,
Bauhaus,
Colin Newman,
The Saints,
Radio Birdman,
Scion,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hasil Adkins,
Kerri Chandler,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Idris Muhammad,
Newcleus,
Blancmange,
Chrome,
Fugazi,
Wasted Youth,
Black Sheep,
Janne Schatter,
Stetsasonic,
Barry Ungar,
Marc Almond,
John Coltrane,
Suburban Knight,
These Immortal Souls,
Davy DMX,
The Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
Piero Umiliani,
The Human League,
Gichy Dan,
Ludus,
The Velvet Underground,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Remains,
Marine Girls,
the Bar-Kays,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.