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 Georgia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
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 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 Amon Düül to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
Unwound,
Terrestrial Tones,
La Düsseldorf,
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
Ponytail,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tears for Fears,
Marmalade,
Howard Jones,
Letta Mbulu,
Barry Ungar,
The Barracudas,
Black Flag,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nico,
The Dirtbombs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rotary Connection,
Technova,
The Mummies,
Fat Boys,
The Tremeloes,
Patti Smith,
Wally Richardson,
The Zeros,
Hoover,
The Raincoats,
The Monochrome Set,
LL Cool J,
Eric Copeland,
Alice Coltrane,
China Crisis,
Quadrant,
F. McDonald,
Goldenarms,
Icehouse,
Derrick Morgan,
Yusef Lateef,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Prince Buster,
Q and Not U,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sällskapet,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Birthday Party,
DJ Style,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The American Breed,
R.M.O.,
Slick Rick,
The Names,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sex Pistols,
Tim Buckley,
The Beau Brummels,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.