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 Marshall Islands and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 London and Salvador.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Joy Division to the rap 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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
La Düsseldorf,
Nirvana,
Johnny Clarke,
Avey Tare,
Wire,
Neu!,
The Detroit Cobras,
Boz Scaggs,
Q and Not U,
the Slits,
Dual Sessions,
The Walker Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Görl,
Bronski Beat,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Christie,
Cluster,
Godley & Creme,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lower 48,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed,
Skaos,
Robert Wyatt,
Kas Product,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gichy Dan,
Lee Hazlewood,
David Bowie,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris & Cosey,
Gabor Szabo,
The Evens,
Josef K,
The Modern Lovers,
New York Dolls,
Unrelated Segments,
Ornette Coleman,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dawn Penn,
Whodini,
Suburban Knight,
Los Fastidios,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tears for Fears,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott Heron,
Oneida,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Danielle Patucci,
June Days,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eden Ahbez,
Bill Near,
The Smoke,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sam Rivers,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.