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 San Marino and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Cymande to the disco 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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Average White Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Kaleidoscope,
Derrick Morgan,
Nas,
the Bar-Kays,
Darondo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Zeros,
Lungfish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gichy Dan,
Robert Görl,
James Chance & The Contortions,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Age Steppers,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Doors,
Gil Scott Heron,
This Heat,
Minnie Riperton,
D'Angelo,
Basic Channel,
Prince Buster,
The Litter,
Black Bananas,
Iggy Pop,
The J.B.'s,
Blancmange,
Warsaw,
Wally Richardson,
The Divine Comedy,
The Dirtbombs,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Outsiders,
The Velvet Underground,
Eric B and Rakim,
Shoche,
Negative Approach,
Grey Daturas,
Kayak,
10cc,
OOIOO,
Arab on Radar,
Alison Limerick,
Adolescents,
Chris Corsano,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pulsallama,
Jacques Brel,
Model 500,
The Count Five,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Chrome,
Derrick May,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.