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 Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 Leonard Cohen to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fugs. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Erasure,
The Birthday Party,
Slave,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Techniques,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yusef Lateef,
Wings,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Skriet,
ABBA,
David Bowie,
The Young Rascals,
The Cowsills,
DJ Sneak,
Ronan,
The Associates,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Stooges,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Idris Muhammad,
Shuggie Otis,
Audionom,
Nico,
Make Up,
Parry Music,
Lucky Dragons,
Lakeside,
Michelle Simonal,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Knickerbockers,
Monolake,
The Selecter,
Stetsasonic,
The Flesh Eaters,
Patti Smith,
Bill Near,
Mad Mike,
Juan Atkins,
Reagan Youth,
Blake Baxter,
Howard Jones,
Arcadia,
the Soft Cell,
The Beau Brummels,
The New Christs,
Moby Grape,
Eli Mardock,
Ossler,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roxy Music,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gerry Rafferty,
Don Cherry,
Nirvana,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bad Manners,
Section 25,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.