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 Ghana and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Lalann to the grunge 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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scan 7,
The Invisible,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rakim,
The Slits,
Adolescents,
Skaos,
Can,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arcadia,
Deakin,
MDC,
Infiniti,
The Techniques,
The Pretty Things,
Dorothy Ashby,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pagans,
Jeff Mills,
Bush Tetras,
Lindisfarne,
R.M.O.,
Joe Smooth,
The Dave Clark Five,
Guru Guru,
John Lydon,
Tom Boy,
Quadrant,
New York Dolls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Dolphy,
The Doors,
Heaven 17,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sonic Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sugar Minott,
PIL,
The Mummies,
Index,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fire Engines,
The Offenders,
Flipper,
Los Fastidios,
the Germs,
Bobby Sherman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tubeway Army,
The Durutti Column,
Mr. Review,
Arab on Radar,
kango's stein massive,
Intrusion,
Mars,
The Wake,
Harmonia,
Aaron Thompson,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.