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 Latvia and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 X-102 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
OOIOO,
Mars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Oneida,
The Blackbyrds,
Nik Kershaw,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Los Fastidios,
Kas Product,
L. Decosne,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dead C,
ABC,
The Gap Band,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Cell,
Anthony Braxton,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Oblivians,
Idris Muhammad,
Grey Daturas,
Kaleidoscope,
Spandau Ballet,
DJ Style,
Bootsy Collins,
Deadbeat,
The Move,
Warsaw,
Average White Band,
Ten City,
Reagan Youth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Whodini,
The Remains,
X-102,
Basic Channel,
Nirvana,
The Zeros,
Rufus Thomas,
Technova,
FM Einheit,
Dual Sessions,
Ultra Naté,
Skaos,
Cluster,
Q and Not U,
Rotary Connection,
Crash Course in Science,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yusef Lateef,
Hasil Adkins,
The Invisible,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Human League,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.