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 Tonga and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rod Modell to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Negative Approach,
Steve Hackett,
Los Fastidios,
Iggy Pop,
Zapp,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Godley & Creme,
Pussy Galore,
Goldenarms,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Derrick Morgan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kerri Chandler,
Rotary Connection,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Slackers,
New Order,
Fatback Band,
the Soft Cell,
Cybotron,
Crime,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ultra Naté,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fela Kuti,
Malaria!,
Aloha Tigers,
Lucky Dragons,
David Bowie,
Delon & Dalcan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The J.B.'s,
The Sonics,
The Monochrome Set,
Severed Heads,
The Dead C,
PIL,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bluetip,
Swans,
Nas,
cv313,
Eve St. Jones,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Talk Talk,
Bang On A Can,
The Durutti Column,
Slave,
Matthew Bourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Liliput,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Moon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bush Tetras,
The Gories,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.