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 Albania and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Black Flag to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Fugazi,
The Motions,
Con Funk Shun,
Letta Mbulu,
Groovy Waters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABBA,
Essential Logic,
Sister Nancy,
Iggy Pop,
Toni Rubio,
Joy Division,
Siglo XX,
Unrelated Segments,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Youth Brigade,
Lou Reed,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joensuu 1685,
Interpol,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cameo,
The Raincoats,
Popol Vuh,
Tropical Tobacco,
Skriet,
Pantaleimon,
Average White Band,
Half Japanese,
Little Man,
Agitation Free,
Al Stewart,
The Walker Brothers,
Brick,
Grandmaster Flash,
Chrome,
Panda Bear,
The Music Machine,
Brothers Johnson,
The Angels of Light,
A Certain Ratio,
Nas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Junior Murvin,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
X-102,
Lower 48,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barry Ungar,
Infiniti,
Graham Central Station,
The Sound,
Cheater Slicks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.