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 Ethiopia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 chamberlin 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 Sister Nancy to the jazz 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Moody Blues,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mission of Burma,
Dual Sessions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Newcleus,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Cale,
Nirvana,
Cybotron,
Faraquet,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pet Shop Boys,
Avey Tare,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Can,
Barrington Levy,
Trumans Water,
Ossler,
Joey Negro,
The Monks,
X-Ray Spex,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fluxion,
Bill Wells,
Dave Gahan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hardrive,
Dawn Penn,
Lalann,
The Red Krayola,
Lee Hazlewood,
10cc,
Blancmange,
The Young Rascals,
The Fugs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wings,
Jawbox,
Grauzone,
Urselle,
EPMD,
Interpol,
Goldenarms,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Teasers,
Amon Düül,
Leonard Cohen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Half Japanese,
Masters at Work,
Yaz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.