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 Liechtenstein and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 Ronan to the rock 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
Fatback Band,
the Soft Cell,
Von Mondo,
Interpol,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dave Gahan,
The Fall,
Eli Mardock,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Electric Prunes,
Deepchord,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Khruangbin,
The Gap Band,
Siglo XX,
Skaos,
Toni Rubio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bootsy Collins,
The Divine Comedy,
John Lydon,
Minnie Riperton,
Tubeway Army,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slick Rick,
Suicide,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sun City Girls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Liliput,
the Swans,
Blossom Toes,
The Walker Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
Skarface,
Mo-Dettes,
The Names,
cv313,
The Sonics,
Eric Copeland,
Goldenarms,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Q and Not U,
Drexciya,
Kurtis Blow,
Das Ding,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.