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 Philippines and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Khruangbin to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brand Nubian,
Severed Heads,
Glenn Branca,
Dark Day,
Piero Umiliani,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ice-T,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bush Tetras,
Althea and Donna,
Pulsallama,
Joy Division,
Minnie Riperton,
Bootsy Collins,
Danielle Patucci,
Graham Central Station,
Kerri Chandler,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun City Girls,
Eric Copeland,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Cure,
Marmalade,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gichy Dan,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Doobie Brothers,
Andrew Hill,
Camouflage,
China Crisis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wings,
Darondo,
Dawn Penn,
The Techniques,
Tomorrow,
8 Eyed Spy,
Maurizio,
Cybotron,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Average White Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jawbox,
Yaz,
Alice Coltrane,
Dual Sessions,
Harmonia,
Swell Maps,
The Slackers,
Roxy Music,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Slits,
The Durutti Column,
The Mummies,
The Grass Roots,
Jacob Miller,
Toni Rubio,
The Raincoats,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.