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 Switzerland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Jandek,
The Slackers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Subhumans,
Underground Resistance,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Harmonia,
Q and Not U,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kurtis Blow,
The Beau Brummels,
The Vogues,
Reuben Wilson,
Bang On A Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rapeman,
Visage,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Motorama,
Crispy Ambulance,
Infiniti,
L. Decosne,
Magma,
John Holt,
The Sonics,
The Cramps,
Bobby Sherman,
Maleditus Sound,
Slave,
Mo-Dettes,
Banda Bassotti,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
Second Layer,
Sparks,
The Mummies,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Terry Callier,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
UT,
Derrick May,
Crime,
Lou Reed,
Rakim,
Wasted Youth,
Sandy B,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fall,
Aswad,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Smiths,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.