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 Libya and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 clarinet 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 Isaac Hayes to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gories. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Wally Richardson,
World's Most,
The Zeros,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Sonics,
Alphaville,
China Crisis,
Buzzcocks,
The Evens,
Dennis Brown,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
JFA,
The Fortunes,
Aloha Tigers,
Ice-T,
Skaos,
Bobby Sherman,
The Vogues,
Rod Modell,
The Fugs,
Thompson Twins,
Siglo XX,
The Sonics,
Bluetip,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
June of 44,
The Velvet Underground,
T.S.O.L.,
Erasure,
Joy Division,
Marvin Gaye,
Fugazi,
Carl Craig,
Lalo Schifrin,
Reagan Youth,
Lou Christie,
Sam Rivers,
Chris & Cosey,
The Victims,
Monolake,
The Names,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Motorama,
Masters at Work,
Absolute Body Control,
Yellowson,
Skarface,
Kaleidoscope,
Pierre Henry,
Newcleus,
Quando Quango,
Massinfluence,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nirvana,
The Selecter,
The Cure,
the Germs,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.