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 Venezuela and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Index to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Skatalites,
Lungfish,
The Doors,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rod Modell,
The Raincoats,
The Smoke,
Terrestrial Tones,
Swans,
Yusef Lateef,
Ralphi Rosario,
Porter Ricks,
Simply Red,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gabor Szabo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lower 48,
Kayak,
Yazoo,
U.S. Maple,
Mars,
Sugar Minott,
The Doobie Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Machine,
Buzzcocks,
Roger Hodgson,
Dead Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bluetip,
Robert Wyatt,
The Misunderstood,
Soul II Soul,
the Association,
The Blues Magoos,
Camberwell Now,
The Star Department,
Visage,
The Standells,
The Fuzztones,
MDC,
Circle Jerks,
Half Japanese,
Andrew Hill,
Joe Smooth,
Joe Finger,
Iggy Pop,
Joy Division,
Archie Shepp,
Theoretical Girls,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Moody Blues,
The Last Poets,
The Durutti Column,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jandek,
China Crisis,
Pussy Galore,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Robert Görl,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.