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 Malaysia and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Standells to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
X-102,
Intrusion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ralphi Rosario,
Iggy Pop,
Ronnie Foster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Donny Hathaway,
Crash Course in Science,
Technova,
Pole,
The Count Five,
Ornette Coleman,
Gichy Dan,
Hardrive,
Leonard Cohen,
June Days,
Tears for Fears,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joy Division,
Essential Logic,
Joe Smooth,
The Fire Engines,
Skaos,
Livin' Joy,
A Certain Ratio,
the Swans,
kango's stein massive,
Sällskapet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Index,
Dark Day,
The Barracudas,
The United States of America,
The Fugs,
Charles Mingus,
The Happenings,
Bluetip,
Easy Going,
The Doors,
Morten Harket,
Severed Heads,
Godley & Creme,
Kerrie Biddell,
Reagan Youth,
the Germs,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül II,
New York Dolls,
Tom Boy,
Make Up,
Au Pairs,
Outsiders,
Junior Murvin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Womack,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kas Product,
Eric B and Rakim,
Alison Limerick,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.