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 Armenia and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Velvet Underground to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Jerry's Kids,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Moody Blues,
Flash Fearless,
Flamin' Groovies,
PIL,
Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Tremeloes,
Ronan,
Oneida,
Tomorrow,
Cybotron,
Kerrie Biddell,
Massinfluence,
Electric Prunes,
Can,
The Stooges,
Rekid,
Fela Kuti,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Hood,
the Germs,
The United States of America,
Ultimate Spinach,
June Days,
Chrome,
Marmalade,
Junior Murvin,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker,
Gang of Four,
Rotary Connection,
Laurel Aitken,
Ralphi Rosario,
Half Japanese,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Television,
Idris Muhammad,
Juan Atkins,
Mandrill,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultravox,
the Slits,
Aloha Tigers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Letta Mbulu,
Fugazi,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket,
Ken Boothe,
The Blackbyrds,
The Martian,
The Standells,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.