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 Namibia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Zeros to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Clear Light,
Sound Behaviour,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
One Last Wish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mr. Review,
Howard Jones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marcia Griffiths,
The J.B.'s,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Litter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Animal Collective,
Scott Walker,
Can,
E-Dancer,
Aaron Thompson,
Thompson Twins,
The Motions,
John Coltrane,
The Fire Engines,
Sam Rivers,
Banda Bassotti,
JFA,
Cecil Taylor,
X-101,
Alice Coltrane,
Minnie Riperton,
The Smoke,
Groovy Waters,
Soft Cell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nik Kershaw,
China Crisis,
Reuben Wilson,
Max Romeo,
Sarah Menescal,
Harpers Bizarre,
PIL,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Move,
The Golliwogs,
Cybotron,
Funky Four + One,
Whodini,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Drexciya,
Main Source,
Yazoo,
Boredoms,
Hardrive,
Sex Pistols,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pulsallama,
A Certain Ratio,
10cc,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.