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 Azerbaijan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 oboe 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 Public Image Ltd. to the jazz 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Aloha Tigers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sixth Finger,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quantec,
Negative Approach,
Blancmange,
Fatback Band,
The Mummies,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lungfish,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ohio Players,
Wolf Eyes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ituana,
The Happenings,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Pop Group,
New Order,
Fela Kuti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delta 5,
Blake Baxter,
James White and The Blacks,
Warren Ellis,
Gastr Del Sol,
Intrusion,
Pole,
Soul II Soul,
Make Up,
David McCallum,
Todd Terry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rotary Connection,
Sister Nancy,
Infiniti,
CMW,
Deepchord,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
EPMD,
Franke,
Procol Harum,
Derrick Morgan,
The Music Machine,
The Count Five,
Bootsy Collins,
kango's stein massive,
These Immortal Souls,
The Gladiators,
Porter Ricks,
The Monochrome Set,
One Last Wish,
Animal Collective,
Dual Sessions,
Stockholm Monsters,
Maurizio,
Joy Division,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.