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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Deakin to the techno 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Iggy Pop,
Public Image Ltd.,
World's Most,
10cc,
Ten City,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang of Four,
Bob Dylan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bluetip,
Todd Rundgren,
KRS-One,
Basic Channel,
Crispian St. Peters,
Angry Samoans,
E-Dancer,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kaleidoscope,
Don Cherry,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Last Poets,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Görl,
Sarah Menescal,
Jawbox,
U.S. Maple,
Laurel Aitken,
Marine Girls,
DJ Style,
Subhumans,
R.M.O.,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camberwell Now,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Swans,
Arcadia,
Sister Nancy,
Lalann,
Glenn Branca,
Masters at Work,
Aloha Tigers,
Theoretical Girls,
Wings,
Janne Schatter,
Pylon,
Severed Heads,
The Count Five,
Cal Tjader,
Ultravox,
Metal Thangz,
Schoolly D,
The Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hot Snakes,
Delta 5,
Underground Resistance,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Selecter,
Zero Boys,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.