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 Zambia and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Shoche to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Byron Stingily 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Trojans,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Michelle Simonal,
Supertramp,
Pantytec,
The Fugs,
Mission of Burma,
Max Romeo,
Scott Walker,
Goldenarms,
Joy Division,
Rod Modell,
Quando Quango,
Laurel Aitken,
Desert Stars,
The Happenings,
Patti Smith,
Sarah Menescal,
Davy DMX,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hashim,
PIL,
The Busters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rufus Thomas,
Black Moon,
The Motions,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
Drexciya,
Grey Daturas,
Jeff Mills,
Gichy Dan,
T.S.O.L.,
Roxette,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
R.M.O.,
B.T. Express,
the Germs,
The Wake,
Roger Hodgson,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Slits,
Ten City,
Deadbeat,
E-Dancer,
Danielle Patucci,
The Velvet Underground,
the Swans,
Wire,
Fluxion,
Letta Mbulu,
OOIOO,
Minny Pops,
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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.