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 Egypt 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar 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 Lou Christie to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Malaria! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Alphaville,
Pole,
The Velvet Underground,
Livin' Joy,
Jandek,
The Divine Comedy,
the Sonics,
Intrusion,
Frankie Knuckles,
Monolake,
Girls At Our Best!,
Duran Duran,
Bobby Sherman,
The Selecter,
Skarface,
Moss Icon,
Camouflage,
Popol Vuh,
OOIOO,
Roxette,
The Human League,
The Associates,
Fatback Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Ralphi Rosario,
Main Source,
Sarah Menescal,
Severed Heads,
Mars,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
Q65,
The Cure,
10cc,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Amon Düül II,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minutemen,
Television,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
JFA,
Zapp,
The Gap Band,
The J.B.'s,
Fluxion,
Amazonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Section 25,
Nick Fraelich,
Todd Rundgren,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.