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 Afghanistan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Certain Ratio,
Nirvana,
Michelle Simonal,
Jawbox,
Nils Olav,
Boz Scaggs,
the Germs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Toasters,
ABBA,
Erasure,
Neu!,
Thee Headcoats,
L. Decosne,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül II,
Lyres,
Wally Richardson,
48th St. Collective,
Sun City Girls,
The Skatalites,
Crooked Eye,
Harry Pussy,
Fat Boys,
Eric Copeland,
the Slits,
Alice Coltrane,
The Birthday Party,
Reuben Wilson,
Joey Negro,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rakim,
Moby Grape,
Tropical Tobacco,
Carl Craig,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Franke,
Fatback Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Sandy B,
Althea and Donna,
Flipper,
Excepter,
Yazoo,
Livin' Joy,
Wings,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Byron Stingily,
Television,
Bluetip,
the Soft Cell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Das Ding,
the Association,
JFA,
AZ,
Quadrant,
Ken Boothe,
La Düsseldorf,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.