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 Turkey and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Portland.
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 chamberlin 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 John Lydon to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Janne Schatter,
D'Angelo,
Oblivians,
Eden Ahbez,
Matthew Halsall,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Index,
The Music Machine,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scrapy,
Suicide,
Hardrive,
Sister Nancy,
Kenny Larkin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Monks,
Average White Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Susan Cadogan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Walker Brothers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stereo Dub,
David McCallum,
Model 500,
Trumans Water,
Bluetip,
Marvin Gaye,
Amon Düül II,
Boogie Down Productions,
DJ Sneak,
Basic Channel,
MC5,
The Knickerbockers,
The Electric Prunes,
The Remains,
The Durutti Column,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Moon,
Niagra,
The Kinks,
Essential Logic,
Urselle,
Joe Smooth,
Infiniti,
Nirvana,
The Birthday Party,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Make Up,
Japan,
Rekid,
Pulsallama,
Nico,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Steve Hackett,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.