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 Austria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kayak to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Names. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ituana,
Susan Cadogan,
Ponytail,
Bob Dylan,
Fela Kuti,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deepchord,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Q65,
Wire,
Kerri Chandler,
Sight & Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Skriet,
the Sonics,
Panda Bear,
Black Bananas,
Hardrive,
One Last Wish,
Subhumans,
Tears for Fears,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roger Hodgson,
Matthew Bourne,
Skarface,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
James White and The Blacks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cure,
Ossler,
Gong,
Black Pus,
Amon Düül,
The Stooges,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Knickerbockers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eli Mardock,
the Germs,
Michelle Simonal,
Saccharine Trust,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cybotron,
Whodini,
The Martian,
Cal Tjader,
Dennis Brown,
Kerrie Biddell,
Blancmange,
The Offenders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Donny Hathaway,
Nas,
The Gun Club,
Ice-T,
Television,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.