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 Cameroon and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Suicide to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Happenings,
Black Bananas,
Au Pairs,
L. Decosne,
The Names,
48th St. Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oneida,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Saints,
Neil Young,
The Victims,
Pierre Henry,
The Sonics,
Nik Kershaw,
Albert Ayler,
Reuben Wilson,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fuzztones,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter & Gordon,
DJ Style,
Black Pus,
The Moleskins,
Minny Pops,
Minor Threat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Rhythm & Sound,
Erasure,
Jeff Lynne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Animal Collective,
Mr. Review,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Trojans,
Lungfish,
The New Christs,
The Litter,
Pantytec,
Ohio Players,
Sarah Menescal,
The American Breed,
The Angels of Light,
Swans,
Gang Green,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Misunderstood,
Lou Christie,
Magazine,
The Offenders,
The Gories,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marmalade,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobbi Humphrey,
B.T. Express,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bob Dylan,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.