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 Sweden and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Underground Resistance to the funk 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Underground Resistance,
a-ha,
Essential Logic,
Ronnie Foster,
Bauhaus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Angels of Light,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Gladiators,
Glambeats Corp.,
Davy DMX,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lou Christie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soft Machine,
The Slits,
Crispian St. Peters,
Monks,
ABC,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brothers Johnson,
Lower 48,
The Leaves,
Desert Stars,
Marmalade,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cecil Taylor,
Bluetip,
Mantronix,
Mr. Review,
Thompson Twins,
John Foxx,
The Monochrome Set,
Infiniti,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Henry Cow,
Sarah Menescal,
The Neon Judgement,
Rufus Thomas,
Negative Approach,
Television Personalities,
Japan,
Amon Düül II,
The Grass Roots,
Model 500,
Roxy Music,
Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Moon,
Fat Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Quando Quango,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gichy Dan,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.