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 the UAE and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar 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 New Order 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Barclay James Harvest,
Archie Shepp,
Saccharine Trust,
Ludus,
Minor Threat,
Rotary Connection,
The New Christs,
The Move,
Danielle Patucci,
CMW,
The Invisible,
Zapp,
The Durutti Column,
Aaron Thompson,
The Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Spandau Ballet,
the Sonics,
Radio Birdman,
Reagan Youth,
In Retrospect,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vladislav Delay,
Avey Tare,
Agent Orange,
Public Image Ltd.,
Suburban Knight,
Shoche,
Negative Approach,
John Cale,
The Index,
MDC,
Pantytec,
Wally Richardson,
Byron Stingily,
Fela Kuti,
The Last Poets,
FM Einheit,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Prince Buster,
The Blackbyrds,
Roy Ayers,
Wolf Eyes,
John Coltrane,
Gang Green,
The Music Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Little Man,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Barracudas,
Spoonie Gee,
Alice Coltrane,
Stiv Bators,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mantronix,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.