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 Nicaragua and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Smog to the rock 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Alphaville,
the Germs,
Faust,
The Zeros,
Todd Terry,
The Young Rascals,
John Foxx,
Derrick May,
Qualms,
Gong,
Agitation Free,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Five Americans,
Arcadia,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Dolphy,
Clear Light,
Minny Pops,
June Days,
Mandrill,
Supertramp,
Boz Scaggs,
Maleditus Sound,
MC5,
Minor Threat,
Minutemen,
The Sonics,
Laurel Aitken,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eurythmics,
Darondo,
The Modern Lovers,
OOIOO,
David Axelrod,
MDC,
Colin Newman,
Tres Demented,
The Fugs,
La Düsseldorf,
The Count Five,
Piero Umiliani,
Q and Not U,
John Cale,
Sonic Youth,
Sällskapet,
a-ha,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Deadbeat,
The Star Department,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed,
Delon & Dalcan,
Audionom,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Junior Murvin,
Silicon Teens,
Robert Wyatt,
Donny Hathaway,
The Gories,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.