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 Brazil and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ice-T to the dance 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Sheep,
The Mojo Men,
Danielle Patucci,
Model 500,
Make Up,
New Order,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Music Machine,
Altered Images,
Piero Umiliani,
Half Japanese,
Whodini,
Letta Mbulu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Cramps,
Joyce Sims,
This Heat,
Iggy Pop,
Easy Going,
Throbbing Gristle,
Al Stewart,
Animal Collective,
X-Ray Spex,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dark Day,
The Birthday Party,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed,
Fad Gadget,
D'Angelo,
Icehouse,
Andrew Hill,
Technova,
Rites of Spring,
Buzzcocks,
Barclay James Harvest,
FM Einheit,
Pagans,
Soft Cell,
The Residents,
cv313,
The Dirtbombs,
Mr. Review,
Bill Wells,
Oblivians,
Toni Rubio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lakeside,
EPMD,
Infiniti,
Q and Not U,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fatback Band,
Flash Fearless,
Camberwell Now,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.