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 Equatorial Guinea and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Minnie Riperton to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Andrew Hill,
cv313,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Association,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Reed,
John Cale,
Janne Schatter,
Swans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Human League,
Kayak,
The Black Dice,
Qualms,
Mantronix,
John Lydon,
Fluxion,
The Walker Brothers,
Supertramp,
Rufus Thomas,
Make Up,
Toni Rubio,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Barracudas,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Sheep,
Von Mondo,
UT,
Joyce Sims,
Motorama,
The Cramps,
Barbara Tucker,
Franke,
Soft Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
London Community Gospel Choir,
David McCallum,
Rosa Yemen,
Jawbox,
Yellowson,
The Sound,
The Fuzztones,
Urselle,
Zero Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Carl Craig,
Cheater Slicks,
Skarface,
The Vogues,
The Offenders,
Bobby Womack,
June Days,
Popol Vuh,
Ten City,
Rhythm & Sound,
Quadrant,
Pantaleimon,
The Five Americans,
Half Japanese,
Mandrill,
Stetsasonic,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.