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 China and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Ten City 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 Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Charles Mingus,
Liliput,
Michelle Simonal,
the Swans,
Barbara Tucker,
The Pop Group,
Leonard Cohen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Grass Roots,
Kayak,
Shuggie Otis,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barry Ungar,
The Stooges,
Nick Fraelich,
Bill Wells,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Gories,
Royal Trux,
Sarah Menescal,
The American Breed,
Faust,
Minutemen,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Buckinghams,
Nas,
Avey Tare,
Derrick Morgan,
Stiv Bators,
the Association,
New Order,
Gastr Del Sol,
Patti Smith,
The Young Rascals,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Intrusion,
The Real Kids,
Albert Ayler,
Sex Pistols,
OOIOO,
Wally Richardson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flash Fearless,
Rakim,
The Gun Club,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Kinks,
Lakeside,
The Litter,
David Bowie,
Heaven 17,
The Invisible,
Skarface,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mandrill,
Slave,
Soft Cell,
Robert Wyatt,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.