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 South Sudan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gichy Dan to the grunge 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joe Smooth,
Sarah Menescal,
The Zeros,
The Gories,
Lungfish,
Dead Boys,
Porter Ricks,
In Retrospect,
Cameo,
Gang of Four,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Juan Atkins,
Scientists,
The Gap Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Bobby Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Cheater Slicks,
Robert Hood,
Saccharine Trust,
Glenn Branca,
Banda Bassotti,
Eric Dolphy,
Kenny Larkin,
Eli Mardock,
Crooked Eye,
Connie Case,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fortunes,
Jeff Mills,
Barbara Tucker,
Joe Finger,
Aloha Tigers,
Tommy Roe,
The Birthday Party,
Mo-Dettes,
Graham Central Station,
Sound Behaviour,
Desert Stars,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Blackbyrds,
The J.B.'s,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Bananas,
The Smoke,
The Fire Engines,
Magazine,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jeff Lynne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Black Dice,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Suburban Knight,
Ultimate Spinach,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.