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 Argentina and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Smog to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Dave Clark Five,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hardrive,
Nico,
Dual Sessions,
Cymande,
Matthew Bourne,
the Swans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Tremeloes,
The Techniques,
Fear,
Sonic Youth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Don Cherry,
Heaven 17,
The Real Kids,
The Invisible,
The Raincoats,
The Buckinghams,
Country Teasers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glenn Branca,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gong,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barrington Levy,
Alphaville,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barry Ungar,
Archie Shepp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang of Four,
EPMD,
Shuggie Otis,
Liliput,
the Fania All-Stars,
Von Mondo,
Can,
Ralphi Rosario,
Babytalk,
Quando Quango,
Malaria!,
T. Rex,
Schoolly D,
8 Eyed Spy,
Alice Coltrane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Toasters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Inner City,
Khruangbin,
The Slackers,
the Bar-Kays,
Chris Corsano,
Crooked Eye,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.