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 Marshall Islands and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Intrusion to the crunk 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Searchers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Henry Cow,
Godley & Creme,
Soft Machine,
Royal Trux,
The Fall,
T.S.O.L.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boredoms,
Heaven 17,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Monks,
Chris Corsano,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nick Fraelich,
the Normal,
Ponytail,
Brick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Graham Central Station,
The Gladiators,
ABBA,
Ohio Players,
Nirvana,
Steve Hackett,
Freddie Wadling,
Dave Gahan,
Jandek,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mo-Dettes,
Livin' Joy,
DJ Style,
The Smoke,
The Golliwogs,
Piero Umiliani,
The Tremeloes,
Alison Limerick,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quantec,
Amon Düül II,
Whodini,
The Gap Band,
Erykah Badu,
The J.B.'s,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mission of Burma,
Hardrive,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Oblivians,
EPMD,
Wolf Eyes,
Byron Stingily,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.