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 Poland and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 Nirvana to the jazz 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Deadbeat,
Das Ding,
Matthew Bourne,
Visage,
Brick,
The Skatalites,
Jeff Mills,
Motorama,
The Buckinghams,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gabor Szabo,
Circle Jerks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Zeros,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Stiv Bators,
The Walker Brothers,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra,
Mantronix,
The Associates,
The Evens,
MDC,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Terry Callier,
Blake Baxter,
Roger Hodgson,
The Durutti Column,
Mark Hollis,
The Fire Engines,
Minny Pops,
The Victims,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tres Demented,
The Wake,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bang On A Can,
Niagra,
Talk Talk,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dawn Penn,
Sun City Girls,
Max Romeo,
Jerry's Kids,
Shoche,
James Chance & The Contortions,
David McCallum,
Kerrie Biddell,
Technova,
The Blackbyrds,
Glenn Branca,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Near,
Symarip,
Youth Brigade,
OOIOO,
Drive Like Jehu,
H. Thieme,
Fear,
Organ,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.