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 Turkey and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rotary Connection to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wasted Youth,
Dual Sessions,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Erykah Badu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alton Ellis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sparks,
Shoche,
The Gories,
The Tremeloes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vladislav Delay,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arab on Radar,
Minutemen,
Sister Nancy,
Monolake,
Adolescents,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lucky Dragons,
Moby Grape,
Brothers Johnson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Anakelly,
The Motions,
Minor Threat,
Lungfish,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Style,
The Knickerbockers,
Aaron Thompson,
48th St. Collective,
Quadrant,
X-Ray Spex,
Suburban Knight,
Faraquet,
Surgeon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Make Up,
Nils Olav,
Bronski Beat,
The Walker Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Boz Scaggs,
Tubeway Army,
The Techniques,
Metal Thangz,
Jandek,
Young Marble Giants,
the Human League,
Joyce Sims,
Excepter,
Negative Approach,
Faust,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.