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 Uruguay and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ 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 Inner City to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
10cc,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Public Enemy,
Accadde A,
Supertramp,
Interpol,
New York Dolls,
Sparks,
Quadrant,
The Barracudas,
Liliput,
Section 25,
Erykah Badu,
Schoolly D,
Brothers Johnson,
The Selecter,
The Pretty Things,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Moleskins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Görl,
Rod Modell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oblivians,
The J.B.'s,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Malaria!,
Dave Gahan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mandrill,
The Smiths,
Groovy Waters,
The Doors,
Crash Course in Science,
Guru Guru,
Livin' Joy,
Derrick May,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Buckinghams,
Alison Limerick,
Panda Bear,
Con Funk Shun,
Chrome,
D'Angelo,
Patti Smith,
cv313,
Joe Smooth,
Barry Ungar,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Count Five,
Rufus Thomas,
The Golliwogs,
The Durutti Column,
Aloha Tigers,
The Zeros,
The Last Poets,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.