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 Congo and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 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 Circle Jerks to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Leonard Cohen,
Pagans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Excepter,
Rod Modell,
Audionom,
Josef K,
the Association,
Electric Prunes,
Derrick May,
Silicon Teens,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jandek,
Radio Birdman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Aloha Tigers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MDC,
The Velvet Underground,
Pole,
48th St. Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Saccharine Trust,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sound Behaviour,
Circle Jerks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Beau Brummels,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roger Hodgson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cybotron,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ponytail,
Kerrie Biddell,
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Oneida,
X-101,
Barry Ungar,
Subhumans,
Pylon,
Nirvana,
Dead Boys,
the Germs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ten City,
Newcleus,
Tubeway Army,
Dorothy Ashby,
Smog,
Sällskapet,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Motions,
Young Marble Giants,
Pet Shop Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.