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 Finland and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
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 Holger Czukay 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 K-Klass to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Mary Jane Girls,
K-Klass,
Sarah Menescal,
Eve St. Jones,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scientists,
Lower 48,
Yellowson,
The Monochrome Set,
Mr. Review,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Pierre Henry,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Anakelly,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Remains,
Underground Resistance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lightning Bolt,
Anthony Braxton,
Man Eating Sloth,
Duran Duran,
Monolake,
Guru Guru,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cal Tjader,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Trumans Water,
New Age Steppers,
Brand Nubian,
Harmonia,
Davy DMX,
Robert Wyatt,
Angry Samoans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quantec,
Sällskapet,
Jimmy McGriff,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Star Department,
Deepchord,
Lou Reed,
Subhumans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Görl,
EPMD,
Minnie Riperton,
Tim Buckley,
Drexciya,
The Birthday Party,
Blake Baxter,
Wolf Eyes,
Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.