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 Colombia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Johannesburg.
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 spring reverb 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Delon & Dalcan,
Country Teasers,
Pulsallama,
Pussy Galore,
ABC,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Chris & Cosey,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Byrd,
The Move,
Althea and Donna,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nico,
In Retrospect,
Kurtis Blow,
The Five Americans,
Hashim,
Joensuu 1685,
Flash Fearless,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Michelle Simonal,
Lalo Schifrin,
Danielle Patucci,
Jawbox,
The United States of America,
Sam Rivers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bad Manners,
Sonny Sharrock,
Leonard Cohen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scan 7,
The Cowsills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scientists,
Barbara Tucker,
Clear Light,
Stetsasonic,
Isaac Hayes,
F. McDonald,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
FM Einheit,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
X-101,
48th St. Collective,
Ronan,
Roxy Music,
Soul II Soul,
Desert Stars,
Anthony Braxton,
Sällskapet,
X-Ray Spex,
Bobby Sherman,
Juan Atkins,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dave Gahan,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.