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 Nepal and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Normal to the electroclash 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Sister Nancy,
Brothers Johnson,
Skarface,
Nico,
Roxette,
Wolf Eyes,
The Remains,
Suicide,
MDC,
Rod Modell,
The Invisible,
Yusef Lateef,
Swell Maps,
Jandek,
Livin' Joy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Ossler,
The Tremeloes,
Matthew Halsall,
Agent Orange,
the Slits,
Radiohead,
Blancmange,
Faraquet,
Crime,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nils Olav,
Ice-T,
Cluster,
Wasted Youth,
Quadrant,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Shuggie Otis,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Youth Brigade,
The Red Krayola,
Khruangbin,
The Gun Club,
The Durutti Column,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Infiniti,
Faust,
Danielle Patucci,
Thee Headcoats,
The Busters,
Black Flag,
Audionom,
Heaven 17,
The Sonics,
The Dirtbombs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Alice Coltrane,
Easy Going,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.