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 Madagascar and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joe Smooth to the crunk 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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Joe Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scratch Acid,
Alice Coltrane,
The Tremeloes,
Los Fastidios,
Thee Headcoats,
Harmonia,
The Dirtbombs,
Brothers Johnson,
Avey Tare,
Skaos,
Peter & Gordon,
Heaven 17,
Crooked Eye,
Tommy Roe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABC,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lakeside,
The Dead C,
Pylon,
DJ Sneak,
Chris Corsano,
Radiohead,
Malaria!,
Rites of Spring,
Ultravox,
Kayak,
Average White Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Shuggie Otis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Letta Mbulu,
Colin Newman,
The Mojo Men,
The Fall,
Howard Jones,
Scan 7,
The Red Krayola,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Simply Red,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jeff Mills,
The Selecter,
Agent Orange,
The Music Machine,
Zapp,
New Age Steppers,
Gong,
Amazonics,
Swell Maps,
Ultra Naté,
Scrapy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.