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 the UAE and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
The Doors,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dark Day,
F. McDonald,
Sight & Sound,
Roxette,
Swans,
Motorama,
Darondo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rod Modell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Knickerbockers,
Glenn Branca,
Slave,
Neil Young,
Bobby Sherman,
Davy DMX,
Scrapy,
Magma,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Intrusion,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Electric Prunes,
A Certain Ratio,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Golliwogs,
K-Klass,
Jacques Brel,
Visage,
La Düsseldorf,
Joe Finger,
Terrestrial Tones,
Harry Pussy,
Agitation Free,
Avey Tare,
This Heat,
H. Thieme,
Gong,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kaleidoscope,
Letta Mbulu,
Tomorrow,
Young Marble Giants,
Chris Corsano,
Technova,
Maurizio,
Essential Logic,
Chrome,
Magazine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Stereo Dub,
John Foxx,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Arcadia,
Black Flag,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.