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 Yemen and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mantronix to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
OOIOO,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erasure,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Bar-Kays,
Nas,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
Harmonia,
The Fortunes,
Sandy B,
Faraquet,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dead Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Maleditus Sound,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crispian St. Peters,
Delta 5,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick May,
Gerry Rafferty,
Talk Talk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Royal Trux,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Glenn Branca,
Oblivians,
EPMD,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Golliwogs,
Arab on Radar,
Blake Baxter,
Alton Ellis,
Kaleidoscope,
Smog,
Mandrill,
Depeche Mode,
The Zeros,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang of Four,
The Sound,
Adolescents,
Section 25,
Connie Case,
Bauhaus,
Quadrant,
Judy Mowatt,
AZ,
The Selecter,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.