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 Azerbaijan and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Michael McDonald 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 Shoche to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Stetsasonic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mad Mike,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Associates,
Danielle Patucci,
48th St. Collective,
Al Stewart,
Bill Near,
Gang Gang Dance,
Anthony Braxton,
Don Cherry,
Skarface,
Nils Olav,
Funkadelic,
Bootsy Collins,
Livin' Joy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Minor Threat,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Saints,
Circle Jerks,
The Happenings,
Flipper,
The Monochrome Set,
Freddie Wadling,
Main Source,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
X-102,
Pulsallama,
The Beau Brummels,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sparks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Supertramp,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rosa Yemen,
The Moody Blues,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Harmonia,
Reagan Youth,
Wire,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed,
Massinfluence,
Carl Craig,
Agitation Free,
Funky Four + One,
Joensuu 1685,
Panda Bear,
Zapp,
JFA,
Ice-T,
Negative Approach,
The New Christs,
The Victims,
Little Man,
Boogie Down Productions,
Magazine,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.