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 Peru and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Nils Olav to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
Ice-T,
Pylon,
The Techniques,
Brothers Johnson,
Quadrant,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun City Girls,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mars,
Letta Mbulu,
Tubeway Army,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
The Gories,
Henry Cow,
Joe Smooth,
Tears for Fears,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Magazine,
Jesper Dahlback,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Das Ding,
Lightning Bolt,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Yusef Lateef,
Judy Mowatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Blackbyrds,
The Associates,
Urselle,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sällskapet,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Sherman,
The Beau Brummels,
Lalo Schifrin,
Funkadelic,
The Red Krayola,
The Mojo Men,
Soft Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Robert Hood,
Frankie Knuckles,
Depeche Mode,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Radiohead,
The Raincoats,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Infiniti,
Smog,
Radio Birdman,
Roy Ayers,
Sparks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.