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 Namibia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 güiro 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 The Victims to the dance 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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
Fela Kuti,
Parry Music,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mantronix,
Tubeway Army,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Aaron Thompson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
cv313,
OOIOO,
Moby Grape,
Bill Near,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scion,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gabor Szabo,
Vainqueur,
Swell Maps,
China Crisis,
Hot Snakes,
Bauhaus,
Franke,
Rakim,
The Index,
Eve St. Jones,
June Days,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Quadrant,
The Black Dice,
Terrestrial Tones,
World's Most,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Hood,
The Stooges,
Radio Birdman,
Spoonie Gee,
Freddie Wadling,
The Wake,
Silicon Teens,
Fugazi,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
U.S. Maple,
Smog,
Faraquet,
The Modern Lovers,
Gong,
Bang On A Can,
Von Mondo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Q65,
Infiniti,
The Saints,
The Barracudas,
Popol Vuh,
Pylon,
Roxette,
This Heat,
Technova,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.