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 Cape Verde and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Glenn Branca to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Tremeloes,
Eli Mardock,
Sonic Youth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Funky Four + One,
Jandek,
Mark Hollis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Wake,
D'Angelo,
Circle Jerks,
Adolescents,
Supertramp,
The Fortunes,
Oneida,
Whodini,
Stereo Dub,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Sonics,
Stetsasonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fire Engines,
Banda Bassotti,
Bob Dylan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Funkadelic,
Jeru the Damaja,
JFA,
Ralphi Rosario,
LL Cool J,
Angry Samoans,
Sun Ra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soft Machine,
Scion,
Minor Threat,
Simply Red,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brass Construction,
The Fuzztones,
Mandrill,
Steve Hackett,
Roxette,
Nico,
The Star Department,
The Dave Clark Five,
KRS-One,
Wasted Youth,
Saccharine Trust,
EPMD,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Royal Trux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lucky Dragons,
Main Source,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Amon Düül II,
One Last Wish,
Arthur Verocai,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.