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 Tonga and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crash Course in Science to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Stetsasonic,
Jawbox,
Eli Mardock,
PIL,
Soul II Soul,
Wasted Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
ABC,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Mojo Men,
Al Stewart,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soft Cell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Saccharine Trust,
E-Dancer,
Eric B and Rakim,
Magazine,
The Fire Engines,
Jeff Mills,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultravox,
48th St. Collective,
Pylon,
Piero Umiliani,
FM Einheit,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Basic Channel,
Funky Four + One,
Ossler,
Bizarre Inc.,
Toni Rubio,
Mandrill,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Underground Resistance,
Scratch Acid,
Brick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dorothy Ashby,
X-102,
Mark Hollis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Amon Düül II,
Excepter,
Unwound,
The Electric Prunes,
Crash Course in Science,
T.S.O.L.,
The Slackers,
Scott Walker,
F. McDonald,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Masters at Work,
Aural Exciters,
Mad Mike,
Echospace,
Inner City,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.