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 Slovenia and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
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 theremin 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 Model 500 to the grunge 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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?
Ornette Coleman,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Amon Düül,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Terry,
Ice-T,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Y Pants,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
Pussy Galore,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultravox,
Pole,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sparks,
Massinfluence,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scott Walker,
Yaz,
Roxy Music,
The Gories,
Jandek,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Swell Maps,
Radiohead,
The Toasters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cramps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gap Band,
Scratch Acid,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jacob Miller,
Lakeside,
Bobby Sherman,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric Copeland,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Joyce Sims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
R.M.O.,
Stetsasonic,
These Immortal Souls,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Inner City,
Royal Trux,
Desert Stars,
Suburban Knight,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Selecter,
Youth Brigade,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter and Kerry,
John Lydon,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.