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 Luxembourg and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Altered Images to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Sonic Youth,
Tears for Fears,
Lower 48,
Tim Buckley,
T. Rex,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Au Pairs,
New Order,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Archie Shepp,
Mary Jane Girls,
Von Mondo,
Pantaleimon,
MDC,
Suicide,
Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Sugar Minott,
Mantronix,
In Retrospect,
Skaos,
The Doobie Brothers,
David Bowie,
Masters at Work,
The Five Americans,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Girls At Our Best!,
L. Decosne,
Thompson Twins,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fall,
The Dead C,
ABC,
The Barracudas,
Darondo,
The Walker Brothers,
The Trojans,
T.S.O.L.,
Mandrill,
Minutemen,
Pere Ubu,
The Pop Group,
Dead Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alton Ellis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Babytalk,
Country Teasers,
Blossom Toes,
The Index,
Franke,
The Birthday Party,
Kerri Chandler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Grass Roots,
Robert Görl,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.