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 Australia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 The Alarm Clocks to the grime 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Sonics,
Tommy Roe,
Pantytec,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Move,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Maleditus Sound,
Nico,
Grey Daturas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dawn Penn,
Flamin' Groovies,
Smog,
Stiv Bators,
Das Ding,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter and Kerry,
Robert Hood,
Ultra Naté,
Archie Shepp,
Amon Düül II,
Moss Icon,
Swell Maps,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
New Age Steppers,
Cluster,
Matthew Bourne,
Guru Guru,
The Blues Magoos,
Delon & Dalcan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras,
Unwound,
China Crisis,
Buzzcocks,
Toni Rubio,
The Durutti Column,
the Human League,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Arab on Radar,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Blackbyrds,
Eli Mardock,
Harry Pussy,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Red Krayola,
Johnny Clarke,
The Zeros,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Velvet Underground,
The Angels of Light,
World's Most,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Prince Buster,
Angry Samoans,
Circle Jerks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.