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 Vanuatu and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Reagan Youth to the grunge 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 The New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Sarah Menescal,
the Swans,
Aswad,
Tropical Tobacco,
Archie Shepp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Leonard Cohen,
Albert Ayler,
Lou Reed,
Joy Division,
The Mummies,
The Offenders,
Lucky Dragons,
The Knickerbockers,
Rufus Thomas,
The Trojans,
Scan 7,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cure,
Bizarre Inc.,
Carl Craig,
The Monochrome Set,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kas Product,
Peter and Kerry,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radiohead,
Gastr Del Sol,
Y Pants,
Cluster,
the Bar-Kays,
DJ Sneak,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
DJ Style,
Bang On A Can,
The Slackers,
the Germs,
The Names,
Little Man,
The Wake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yazoo,
Crime,
The Flesh Eaters,
Davy DMX,
ABBA,
The Music Machine,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Essential Logic,
Cameo,
Faraquet,
The Slits,
Symarip,
the Association,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.