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 Uganda and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 John Foxx to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Wolf Eyes,
Country Teasers,
Pulsallama,
Deepchord,
ABC,
Stetsasonic,
Boz Scaggs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tommy Roe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tubeway Army,
The Grass Roots,
Johnny Osbourne,
Whodini,
Banda Bassotti,
Ten City,
Soulsonic Force,
Fear,
Eric Copeland,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Suicide,
Buzzcocks,
Mad Mike,
Aswad,
UT,
The Smoke,
Moebius,
Juan Atkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Goldenarms,
Bill Near,
Youth Brigade,
Can,
John Foxx,
Eli Mardock,
Con Funk Shun,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Young Marble Giants,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pagans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Adolescents,
Donald Byrd,
Flipper,
Alison Limerick,
Chris & Cosey,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Velvet Underground,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Shuggie Otis,
Eric Dolphy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scion,
Vladislav Delay,
Hoover,
Animal Collective,
LL Cool J,
Magazine,
T. Rex,
Max Romeo,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.