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 New Zealand and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Roxette to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Sherman,
The Moleskins,
Eli Mardock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lungfish,
Stiv Bators,
F. McDonald,
the Association,
Harry Pussy,
Patti Smith,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Freddie Wadling,
Jesper Dahlback,
Shoche,
Can,
JFA,
Robert Görl,
Sonic Youth,
Whodini,
Erykah Badu,
Sight & Sound,
Black Flag,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Durutti Column,
Erasure,
CMW,
Soft Cell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cymande,
Hoover,
The Names,
Yaz,
E-Dancer,
Sparks,
Japan,
Minnie Riperton,
Pierre Henry,
John Foxx,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Public Enemy,
Nas,
Skarface,
The Invisible,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Golliwogs,
Qualms,
The J.B.'s,
Archie Shepp,
Hashim,
Susan Cadogan,
Mr. Review,
Minutemen,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ultravox,
Suicide,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.