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 Monaco and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 the Sonics to the rap 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Moby Grape,
The Residents,
Gong,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dead Boys,
David Axelrod,
John Lydon,
Peter and Kerry,
Pierre Henry,
Toni Rubio,
Sonic Youth,
48th St. Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kayak,
The Moody Blues,
Camouflage,
Carl Craig,
Adolescents,
Kaleidoscope,
B.T. Express,
Anthony Braxton,
Japan,
Laurel Aitken,
Saccharine Trust,
FM Einheit,
Rod Modell,
In Retrospect,
The Martian,
New Order,
Nirvana,
Robert Görl,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Urselle,
Scott Walker,
kango's stein massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hasil Adkins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Green,
One Last Wish,
Joe Finger,
Yazoo,
Absolute Body Control,
Janne Schatter,
Kas Product,
Pylon,
Silicon Teens,
Cymande,
T.S.O.L.,
Lightning Bolt,
Technova,
Scan 7,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Reed,
The Move,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
Todd Terry,
Jeff Mills,
Graham Central Station,
The Zeros,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.