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 Bahamas and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare 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 Vladislav Delay to the rap 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Electric Prunes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Simply Red,
Suicide,
Ponytail,
Kas Product,
Blancmange,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Henry Cow,
Alison Limerick,
Eric Copeland,
Au Pairs,
Brand Nubian,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Von Mondo,
The Electric Prunes,
Idris Muhammad,
Joyce Sims,
Pole,
Davy DMX,
Wolf Eyes,
Das Ding,
Pantytec,
Kayak,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Visage,
The Skatalites,
John Coltrane,
Ludus,
Warsaw,
Aaron Thompson,
A Certain Ratio,
Neil Young,
Eddi Front,
Grey Daturas,
Anakelly,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Con Funk Shun,
Bobby Byrd,
Moby Grape,
Audionom,
Stiv Bators,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lakeside,
The Slackers,
Negative Approach,
Ronnie Foster,
Skarface,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Bananas,
David Bowie,
The Leaves,
Absolute Body Control,
X-101,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.