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 Ukraine and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Aloha Tigers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Quantec,
Pantytec,
Wire,
Agitation Free,
Morten Harket,
Intrusion,
Soulsonic Force,
Roy Ayers,
The Dave Clark Five,
X-101,
Black Flag,
Johnny Osbourne,
Idris Muhammad,
Inner City,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Byron Stingily,
Graham Central Station,
The Selecter,
Bush Tetras,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Boz Scaggs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Guru Guru,
The Wake,
Isaac Hayes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Womack,
Infiniti,
Nirvana,
Carl Craig,
Gang Gang Dance,
The New Christs,
Magma,
Kerri Chandler,
The Alarm Clocks,
Adolescents,
Bad Manners,
Susan Cadogan,
The Fall,
Moby Grape,
Moss Icon,
Sex Pistols,
Rod Modell,
Yellowson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cluster,
JFA,
Freddie Wadling,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Leonard Cohen,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roxy Music,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zero Boys,
Roxette,
Jeff Lynne,
Deakin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.