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 Iraq and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the dance 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Barrington Levy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arcadia,
Skriet,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joe Finger,
Bobby Byrd,
Technova,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fugazi,
Ice-T,
Scion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Moss Icon,
X-101,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Pop Group,
Brick,
Y Pants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Unwound,
The Blues Magoos,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grandmaster Flash,
Groovy Waters,
Tubeway Army,
Siglo XX,
Babytalk,
Erasure,
The Zeros,
Mary Jane Girls,
Black Pus,
Cal Tjader,
The Buckinghams,
Dark Day,
Clear Light,
The Fall,
LL Cool J,
Jeff Lynne,
Althea and Donna,
Nico,
Fela Kuti,
The Toasters,
Popol Vuh,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Echospace,
Los Fastidios,
David Axelrod,
Gastr Del Sol,
Agent Orange,
Tom Boy,
Cybotron,
Hasil Adkins,
Scientists,
Ralphi Rosario,
Derrick Morgan,
Maleditus Sound,
The Human League,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.