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 Niger and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron 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 Blues Magoos to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lower 48,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dave Gahan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Skaos,
Amon Düül II,
Chris & Cosey,
Al Stewart,
New York Dolls,
Nick Fraelich,
Quantec,
the Association,
The Gories,
The Modern Lovers,
Gabor Szabo,
Livin' Joy,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Buckinghams,
Sonic Youth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
F. McDonald,
The Durutti Column,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Real Kids,
Q65,
T.S.O.L.,
Minor Threat,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sound Behaviour,
Jawbox,
Delta 5,
A Certain Ratio,
Organ,
Eli Mardock,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Machine,
Cluster,
The Fall,
Janne Schatter,
The Standells,
Loose Ends,
Susan Cadogan,
The Knickerbockers,
Mission of Burma,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fugs,
Hardrive,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ultravox,
The Smoke,
Agent Orange,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nas,
Pantytec,
Sam Rivers,
Marine Girls,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.