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 Netherlands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 harpsichord 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 Cluster to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Mantronix,
Slave,
Guru Guru,
Lalann,
Connie Case,
Moss Icon,
Robert Görl,
Lindisfarne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Invisible,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
The Red Krayola,
Rufus Thomas,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
Fugazi,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Monochrome Set,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grey Daturas,
Sixth Finger,
The Modern Lovers,
Swans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Main Source,
Janne Schatter,
Masters at Work,
Fatback Band,
Prince Buster,
Soulsonic Force,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Procol Harum,
The Gap Band,
The Sonics,
Liliput,
Scratch Acid,
John Holt,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nirvana,
Robert Hood,
Aural Exciters,
Animal Collective,
Wasted Youth,
Sparks,
Scan 7,
Sonic Youth,
The Golliwogs,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fluxion,
Public Enemy,
The Toasters,
Excepter,
Radiohead,
Crash Course in Science,
The Velvet Underground,
Alton Ellis,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.