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 Tonga and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 FM Einheit to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
The Busters,
The Move,
Infiniti,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jerry's Kids,
Shuggie Otis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marvin Gaye,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minutemen,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
L. Decosne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Gang of Four,
China Crisis,
Tommy Roe,
Rufus Thomas,
Skarface,
The Sound,
The Barracudas,
Peter & Gordon,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Colin Newman,
Moby Grape,
World's Most,
Faust,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rekid,
The J.B.'s,
PIL,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Interpol,
The Real Kids,
The Associates,
Grey Daturas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aural Exciters,
EPMD,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Blackbyrds,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter and Kerry,
Jacob Miller,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Names,
Erasure,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Byrd,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fuzztones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Trojans,
Mad Mike,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.