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 Sudan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mary Jane Girls to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Loose Ends,
Amon Düül,
Infiniti,
Liliput,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Public Enemy,
Q and Not U,
The Gun Club,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Dead C,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Essential Logic,
FM Einheit,
Deakin,
One Last Wish,
Johnny Clarke,
Piero Umiliani,
Absolute Body Control,
Rotary Connection,
The Cowsills,
Eli Mardock,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
In Retrospect,
Make Up,
Television,
Visage,
Siglo XX,
The Skatalites,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dual Sessions,
Swell Maps,
Adolescents,
Nick Fraelich,
World's Most,
Little Man,
Moby Grape,
Dorothy Ashby,
Subhumans,
Cybotron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Warren Ellis,
Marc Almond,
Chris & Cosey,
Fatback Band,
Oblivians,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fugazi,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grauzone,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Womack,
Todd Terry,
ABBA,
Fluxion,
Tropical Tobacco,
Heaven 17,
The Selecter,
Camouflage,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.