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 Lithuania and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Girls At Our Best! to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Shadows of Knight,
Johnny Clarke,
Bang On A Can,
Magazine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bill Near,
Nirvana,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Human League,
Flash Fearless,
Nick Fraelich,
Easy Going,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Vogues,
Black Sheep,
World's Most,
Joy Division,
Panda Bear,
Severed Heads,
The Real Kids,
Ken Boothe,
Lalann,
Cal Tjader,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chrome,
Nico,
Qualms,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Theoretical Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
The Sonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
Lungfish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
The Moody Blues,
Dual Sessions,
Rod Modell,
Quando Quango,
Wolf Eyes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Smog,
Goldenarms,
Technova,
Grauzone,
Neil Young,
June Days,
Sällskapet,
the Association,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Velvet Underground,
The Barracudas,
Ronan,
Symarip,
Bronski Beat,
Average White Band,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.