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 Kiribati and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 David Bowie to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Country Teasers,
Unrelated Segments,
The Walker Brothers,
David Bowie,
Johnny Clarke,
Connie Case,
These Immortal Souls,
Sam Rivers,
The Moody Blues,
Con Funk Shun,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ken Boothe,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erykah Badu,
Drexciya,
Whodini,
The Velvet Underground,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Zero Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Bronski Beat,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultravox,
D'Angelo,
K-Klass,
Silicon Teens,
Todd Terry,
John Coltrane,
Dennis Brown,
Dawn Penn,
Cluster,
Marine Girls,
Sister Nancy,
The Vogues,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Skatalites,
MC5,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pierre Henry,
Brothers Johnson,
Sonic Youth,
Black Pus,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soft Machine,
Delta 5,
Los Fastidios,
The Standells,
Negative Approach,
The Selecter,
Eli Mardock,
Nirvana,
Unwound,
Warsaw,
The Barracudas,
Deadbeat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.