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 Paraguay and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes 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 Flash Fearless to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Stetsasonic,
Panda Bear,
Dave Gahan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Coltrane,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
David Axelrod,
Jawbox,
Slave,
Nick Fraelich,
Television Personalities,
Reagan Youth,
Fad Gadget,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Martian,
Erasure,
Amazonics,
Royal Trux,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Count Five,
One Last Wish,
Sister Nancy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Amon Düül,
Chris Corsano,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Starr,
Fela Kuti,
Smog,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Accadde A,
Ossler,
Suburban Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Brick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eve St. Jones,
Barclay James Harvest,
Little Man,
The Saints,
Moss Icon,
Rapeman,
Qualms,
Niagra,
Godley & Creme,
OOIOO,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Blues Magoos,
Talk Talk,
The Sonics,
Stiv Bators,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Reed,
Stereo Dub,
The New Christs,
Agitation Free,
Sound Behaviour,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.