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 Botswana and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Fuzztones to the grime 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Dead C,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Blancmange,
Sixth Finger,
the Germs,
Spandau Ballet,
Morten Harket,
Fad Gadget,
The Fugs,
Ice-T,
KRS-One,
Clear Light,
Intrusion,
Scion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skaos,
The Doobie Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Roy Ayers,
Amazonics,
The Standells,
Slave,
Funkadelic,
Monks,
Underground Resistance,
D'Angelo,
Brothers Johnson,
Buzzcocks,
Siglo XX,
James White and The Blacks,
The Motions,
Kaleidoscope,
U.S. Maple,
The Knickerbockers,
Shuggie Otis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Nik Kershaw,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed,
The Offenders,
The Tremeloes,
Ronan,
Kurtis Blow,
The Durutti Column,
Grey Daturas,
Sun Ra,
Colin Newman,
Ultravox,
The Invisible,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare,
Barrington Levy,
The Real Kids,
Circle Jerks,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.