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 Iceland and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Modern Lovers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
One Last Wish,
The Selecter,
Scion,
Charles Mingus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Unwound,
Black Moon,
Basic Channel,
Sun Ra,
Piero Umiliani,
Talk Talk,
The Raincoats,
Stiv Bators,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joe Smooth,
Masters at Work,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deakin,
Swans,
MC5,
Lebanon Hanover,
Franke,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jacob Miller,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fortunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang of Four,
CMW,
The Blackbyrds,
Thee Headcoats,
Arcadia,
Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Essential Logic,
Scientists,
The Litter,
Wings,
Stereo Dub,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Coltrane,
Babytalk,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mission of Burma,
Supertramp,
AZ,
Barry Ungar,
Arab on Radar,
Urselle,
Pere Ubu,
Camberwell Now,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.