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 El Salvador and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Tres Demented to the dance 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck 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?
Infiniti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Donald Byrd,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Trojans,
Don Cherry,
Gabor Szabo,
Terry Callier,
the Germs,
Jesper Dahlback,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mark Hollis,
OOIOO,
Magazine,
Crooked Eye,
Barrington Levy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Charles Mingus,
Wire,
Simply Red,
Neu!,
Ludus,
Mandrill,
Jacob Miller,
These Immortal Souls,
the Bar-Kays,
Ice-T,
Cecil Taylor,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mr. Review,
The Seeds,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Half Japanese,
JFA,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Warren Ellis,
Susan Cadogan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pole,
Ultra Naté,
CMW,
Kaleidoscope,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool Moe Dee,
AZ,
Subhumans,
The Saints,
Girls At Our Best!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soft Machine,
Marmalade,
Jandek,
Alison Limerick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Harmonia,
Bluetip,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.