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 Serbia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 harpsichord 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 June Days to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
This Heat,
Wasted Youth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Accadde A,
Rod Modell,
the Normal,
Donny Hathaway,
Lightning Bolt,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Christie,
Schoolly D,
Shoche,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delta 5,
Public Enemy,
Sound Behaviour,
The Walker Brothers,
Smog,
John Coltrane,
The Doors,
Todd Rundgren,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eric Copeland,
Fela Kuti,
Jawbox,
Roy Ayers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kas Product,
Iggy Pop,
Barbara Tucker,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
EPMD,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sister Nancy,
Sun City Girls,
Moby Grape,
Warren Ellis,
The Kinks,
New Age Steppers,
Scott Walker,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hardrive,
Basic Channel,
Los Fastidios,
Sällskapet,
Fugazi,
The Tremeloes,
Mantronix,
The Beau Brummels,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fall,
Dual Sessions,
Max Romeo,
Matthew Bourne,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.