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 Cambodia and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Deakin to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Quantec,
Fela Kuti,
Soft Cell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Juan Atkins,
the Slits,
Sun City Girls,
Warren Ellis,
Liliput,
Second Layer,
Sam Rivers,
June of 44,
Lou Reed,
Deepchord,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jacques Brel,
The Evens,
Soul II Soul,
Cal Tjader,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slits,
Al Stewart,
Robert Wyatt,
Suburban Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
In Retrospect,
Rufus Thomas,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T.S.O.L.,
Deakin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Blancmange,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Japan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Black Pus,
the Sonics,
Bluetip,
Dead Boys,
The Sound,
This Heat,
Thee Headcoats,
the Germs,
Albert Ayler,
Nas,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Görl,
Skriet,
World's Most,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Janne Schatter,
The Litter,
Arcadia,
The Names,
Jawbox,
The Sonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Human League,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.