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 Lebanon and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar 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 Thee Headcoats to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Negative Approach,
In Retrospect,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Amon Düül,
Jeff Mills,
Barbara Tucker,
June of 44,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gil Scott Heron,
Suburban Knight,
Gichy Dan,
The Martian,
Delon & Dalcan,
Section 25,
Soulsonic Force,
48th St. Collective,
Lindisfarne,
Wire,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Moon,
Black Flag,
Tommy Roe,
Cybotron,
Q65,
the Swans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Deadbeat,
Sex Pistols,
Amazonics,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crash Course in Science,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scrapy,
Roger Hodgson,
Pulsallama,
Franke,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Adolescents,
Gang Gang Dance,
Stereo Dub,
The Monks,
Leonard Cohen,
The Flesh Eaters,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Severed Heads,
John Foxx,
Mandrill,
Piero Umiliani,
Loose Ends,
the Slits,
The Detroit Cobras,
Henry Cow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Smoke,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.