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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes 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 Jandek to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Grauzone,
Groovy Waters,
Fluxion,
Scrapy,
Flash Fearless,
Bauhaus,
Cybotron,
Roxy Music,
the Swans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Vladislav Delay,
Eric Copeland,
Half Japanese,
Althea and Donna,
Roxette,
Amon Düül,
Heaven 17,
H. Thieme,
New York Dolls,
One Last Wish,
The Cure,
Inner City,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Flag,
Jacques Brel,
Pierre Henry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Vainqueur,
Cymande,
Negative Approach,
Alice Coltrane,
Aswad,
Aural Exciters,
The Fugs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marcia Griffiths,
Andrew Hill,
The Associates,
Donald Byrd,
Faraquet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
China Crisis,
Japan,
Reagan Youth,
Schoolly D,
B.T. Express,
Glenn Branca,
The Gories,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Talk Talk,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The J.B.'s,
The Monochrome Set,
Tim Buckley,
Ornette Coleman,
The Sonics,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.