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 Hungary and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Zeros to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Nas,
The Moleskins,
Boredoms,
Dead Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
David Bowie,
the Slits,
Ronnie Foster,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sixth Finger,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Public Image Ltd.,
Erasure,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sound Behaviour,
Arab on Radar,
The Golliwogs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scientists,
Brass Construction,
Rod Modell,
The Black Dice,
Amon Düül,
Fatback Band,
cv313,
The Stooges,
The Busters,
The Gladiators,
UT,
The Vogues,
The Smiths,
Black Flag,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gabor Szabo,
Yaz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Real Kids,
The Durutti Column,
Chris Corsano,
Mr. Review,
The Blues Magoos,
Goldenarms,
Flipper,
Supertramp,
Nils Olav,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
La Düsseldorf,
Barrington Levy,
Absolute Body Control,
The Associates,
Anakelly,
Sun Ra,
Drexciya,
Easy Going,
The Monks,
Wally Richardson,
Neil Young,
The Raincoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.