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 Uruguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 New Age Steppers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
The Flesh Eaters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The United States of America,
Procol Harum,
Subhumans,
Donald Byrd,
Bobbi Humphrey,
LL Cool J,
Gregory Isaacs,
Warren Ellis,
the Soft Cell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skaos,
The Monks,
DNA,
Negative Approach,
ABC,
Sandy B,
The Red Krayola,
Popol Vuh,
Von Mondo,
Babytalk,
The Misunderstood,
the Fania All-Stars,
Malaria!,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kayak,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Metal Thangz,
The Durutti Column,
The Real Kids,
Ten City,
Wasted Youth,
AZ,
The Fall,
Avey Tare,
The Count Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
John Cale,
The Raincoats,
Lucky Dragons,
The Wake,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jerry's Kids,
Rod Modell,
Lyres,
Marine Girls,
Deakin,
Excepter,
The Black Dice,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Zeros,
Ohio Players,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jandek,
The Smoke,
Pere Ubu,
Cheater Slicks,
Angry Samoans,
Gong,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.