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 Bolivia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum 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 Wasted Youth 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Barrington Levy,
The Techniques,
Young Marble Giants,
Nirvana,
The Neon Judgement,
MDC,
Henry Cow,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Danielle Patucci,
Wings,
Jawbox,
June Days,
The Saints,
The Busters,
David Axelrod,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chris & Cosey,
Michelle Simonal,
LL Cool J,
Unrelated Segments,
Accadde A,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Moody Blues,
Jeff Mills,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fugazi,
The Dead C,
Maurizio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Minor Threat,
Janne Schatter,
Niagra,
Public Enemy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tim Buckley,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
X-102,
Rites of Spring,
Camouflage,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Wake,
Man Parrish,
The Black Dice,
The Birthday Party,
Joe Finger,
The Zeros,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rotary Connection,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mo-Dettes,
Animal Collective,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ituana,
Susan Cadogan,
Lou Christie,
Ossler,
Soul II Soul,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.