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 Armenia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 La Düsseldorf 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Henry Cow,
Skriet,
Flipper,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Theoretical Girls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Sheep,
Ice-T,
The Wake,
Wire,
The Pretty Things,
ABC,
the Soft Cell,
The Searchers,
Section 25,
Brand Nubian,
Slave,
Kas Product,
Scion,
Rufus Thomas,
The Toasters,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Music Machine,
Subhumans,
Todd Rundgren,
Ten City,
X-101,
Eric Copeland,
The Black Dice,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hot Snakes,
John Lydon,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cameo,
FM Einheit,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Green,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Dolphy,
Niagra,
Soft Machine,
Essential Logic,
Moebius,
Groovy Waters,
Liliput,
The Dirtbombs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Slackers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joyce Sims,
Gichy Dan,
Joensuu 1685,
Moss Icon,
Bauhaus,
Joy Division,
JFA,
Fad Gadget,
Unrelated Segments,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.