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 Paraguay and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 güiro 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 Qualms to the funk 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Interpol,
Faraquet,
Carl Craig,
Vainqueur,
La Düsseldorf,
Youth Brigade,
Skaos,
Basic Channel,
Archie Shepp,
Severed Heads,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Prince Buster,
Nico,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Slackers,
ABC,
The Misunderstood,
Jandek,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marine Girls,
Pulsallama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tim Buckley,
Chris & Cosey,
Silicon Teens,
Blossom Toes,
Lightning Bolt,
Index,
Altered Images,
Cal Tjader,
Steve Hackett,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sam Rivers,
The Cowsills,
Laurel Aitken,
Au Pairs,
Iggy Pop,
Minor Threat,
Isaac Hayes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Andrew Hill,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sound,
Morten Harket,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cecil Taylor,
The Stooges,
DJ Style,
Marvin Gaye,
Monks,
Sällskapet,
Ultra Naté,
Girls At Our Best!,
FM Einheit,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Junior Murvin,
The Invisible,
Suburban Knight,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.