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 United States and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 synthesizer 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 Gabor Szabo to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '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 Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Kinks,
Jeff Lynne,
Lightning Bolt,
Sugar Minott,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Jesper Dahlback,
AZ,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed,
The Grass Roots,
The Alarm Clocks,
The New Christs,
Guru Guru,
Kayak,
The Residents,
The Victims,
Black Pus,
Tom Boy,
The American Breed,
The Black Dice,
Dennis Brown,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Sound,
The Remains,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
World's Most,
Aswad,
Interpol,
Kurtis Blow,
Loose Ends,
Ultra Naté,
D'Angelo,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
Vainqueur,
Neil Young,
Howard Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fat Boys,
The Fire Engines,
The Offenders,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Toasters,
Section 25,
Byron Stingily,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sarah Menescal,
The Raincoats,
Soul II Soul,
Hashim,
H. Thieme,
Connie Case,
DJ Sneak,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Neon Judgement,
Andrew Hill,
Q65,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.