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 Lebanon and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Lou Christie to the funk 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Toni Rubio,
Panda Bear,
Robert Görl,
The Zeros,
David Axelrod,
Lightning Bolt,
Yellowson,
Unrelated Segments,
Lower 48,
Alison Limerick,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Remains,
Pantaleimon,
Theoretical Girls,
Radio Birdman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eve St. Jones,
Mark Hollis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Robert Hood,
Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harmonia,
Brick,
the Sonics,
The Cramps,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Sherman,
Tubeway Army,
The Dead C,
Bill Near,
Make Up,
Intrusion,
Bill Wells,
Livin' Joy,
Angry Samoans,
Adolescents,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sonic Youth,
the Association,
Clear Light,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Chrome,
Ludus,
Nas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agent Orange,
Franke,
Buzzcocks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Raincoats,
Lou Reed,
Ultravox,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.