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 Eritrea and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo 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 a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Sister Nancy,
Half Japanese,
David Axelrod,
The Monks,
Johnny Clarke,
Royal Trux,
Eurythmics,
Nils Olav,
Sun Ra,
Lindisfarne,
Patti Smith,
Easy Going,
Nas,
Cameo,
Lyres,
Glenn Branca,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Charles Mingus,
The Techniques,
T. Rex,
The Mojo Men,
Banda Bassotti,
The Knickerbockers,
The Pretty Things,
Au Pairs,
Von Mondo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The American Breed,
The Gun Club,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Dead Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Essential Logic,
Arthur Verocai,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fear,
Fat Boys,
Babytalk,
Radiohead,
JFA,
The Cure,
Flash Fearless,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
Juan Atkins,
Judy Mowatt,
Peter and Kerry,
CMW,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sixth Finger,
Siglo XX,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
ABC,
Wolf Eyes,
New Order,
E-Dancer,
June of 44,
The Associates,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.