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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Warsaw to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
the Slits,
Babytalk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Blues Magoos,
Nik Kershaw,
Fad Gadget,
Rotary Connection,
Glambeats Corp.,
MDC,
Oneida,
Roxy Music,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scrapy,
Soulsonic Force,
Make Up,
Gong,
Dark Day,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eddi Front,
Matthew Bourne,
Lungfish,
David Axelrod,
The Slackers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Teasers,
Altered Images,
Audionom,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Traffic Nightmare,
David McCallum,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joyce Sims,
Eve St. Jones,
Alice Coltrane,
Jerry's Kids,
Adolescents,
Guru Guru,
Dave Gahan,
Banda Bassotti,
Brand Nubian,
the Sonics,
the Soft Cell,
Glenn Branca,
John Lydon,
June Days,
Suburban Knight,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tim Buckley,
Godley & Creme,
Zapp,
Theoretical Girls,
New Age Steppers,
World's Most,
Man Parrish,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.