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 United Kingdom and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hardrive to the punk 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord 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 a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Tropical Tobacco,
Josef K,
The Standells,
Masters at Work,
Motorama,
Lou Christie,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gregory Isaacs,
Anakelly,
Dennis Brown,
The Misunderstood,
Massinfluence,
Minor Threat,
Eve St. Jones,
Q65,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Harmonia,
New Age Steppers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chris Corsano,
Neil Young,
Chris & Cosey,
These Immortal Souls,
Bobby Sherman,
Donny Hathaway,
Circle Jerks,
Lalann,
The Associates,
Magazine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quadrant,
The Grass Roots,
a-ha,
Severed Heads,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soft Cell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rites of Spring,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Walker Brothers,
Arthur Verocai,
Scion,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Golliwogs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Model 500,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eli Mardock,
Flipper,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sight & Sound,
Crispy Ambulance,
Theoretical Girls,
Yellowson,
Black Sheep,
Porter Ricks,
Graham Central Station,
Avey Tare,
48th St. Collective,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Almond,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.