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 Angola and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Sarah Menescal to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Main Source,
Hasil Adkins,
Freddie Wadling,
Silicon Teens,
Roxy Music,
John Foxx,
Bill Wells,
Scan 7,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nirvana,
Rosa Yemen,
Chris Corsano,
Gang Green,
Michelle Simonal,
Kayak,
Minor Threat,
48th St. Collective,
John Cale,
Althea and Donna,
Mark Hollis,
Deakin,
Model 500,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warsaw,
Vainqueur,
Lungfish,
The Tremeloes,
The Gun Club,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gong,
Aloha Tigers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
E-Dancer,
Roxette,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lower 48,
Joy Division,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eddi Front,
Pierre Henry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mad Mike,
The Pretty Things,
Nation of Ulysses,
Prince Buster,
The Searchers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skaos,
Eli Mardock,
X-101,
Swell Maps,
B.T. Express,
Sugar Minott,
Thompson Twins,
The Grass Roots,
Slave,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.