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 Yemen and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Warren Ellis to the disco 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Eddi Front,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dawn Penn,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oneida,
Byron Stingily,
Panda Bear,
Bobby Womack,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sun Ra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Zero Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
Erasure,
Charles Mingus,
Lakeside,
Jacob Miller,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
kango's stein massive,
The Moleskins,
Kenny Larkin,
The Gories,
Albert Ayler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marvin Gaye,
Hot Snakes,
The Real Kids,
Minor Threat,
Joe Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fela Kuti,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blackbyrds,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Hill,
The Slackers,
Jeff Lynne,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
Liliput,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Von Mondo,
Brick,
The Seeds,
The Durutti Column,
Anakelly,
Harmonia,
Skarface,
Nick Fraelich,
Young Marble Giants,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gang of Four,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Drive Like Jehu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.