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 Germany and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Brick to the dance 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Alarm Clocks,
Cybotron,
Lightning Bolt,
Bush Tetras,
The Knickerbockers,
Skarface,
Albert Ayler,
Vladislav Delay,
Joe Smooth,
Mars,
The Divine Comedy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lalann,
The Shadows of Knight,
MC5,
Tres Demented,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris & Cosey,
Oneida,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
48th St. Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Five Americans,
The Residents,
Nils Olav,
Unrelated Segments,
10cc,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tom Boy,
Bill Near,
Sex Pistols,
James White and The Blacks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
E-Dancer,
Bizarre Inc.,
Buzzcocks,
Quadrant,
Jandek,
Jerry's Kids,
Patti Smith,
Supertramp,
The Doors,
The Walker Brothers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Technova,
June Days,
Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Byrd,
Sixth Finger,
Black Sheep,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Red Krayola,
Anthony Braxton,
Minor Threat,
Alison Limerick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.