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 Senegal and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 Bizarre Inc. to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Oblivians,
Easy Going,
Todd Rundgren,
Gerry Rafferty,
Thompson Twins,
Crash Course in Science,
Television,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
AZ,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
UT,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minor Threat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kas Product,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Moleskins,
Ten City,
Rotary Connection,
Rekid,
Flamin' Groovies,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jandek,
Average White Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Inner City,
Metal Thangz,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Womack,
The Victims,
Gong,
Second Layer,
Ossler,
Kurtis Blow,
Desert Stars,
JFA,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rufus Thomas,
Mars,
Public Enemy,
Jerry's Kids,
Dave Gahan,
Don Cherry,
The Smoke,
The Grass Roots,
Skarface,
Vainqueur,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fear,
Livin' Joy,
Maleditus Sound,
Depeche Mode,
Al Stewart,
Con Funk Shun,
Flash Fearless,
Roy Ayers,
Sugar Minott,
the Human League,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.