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 Iceland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb 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 La Düsseldorf to the crunk 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Whodini,
X-101,
The Seeds,
Moebius,
The Fuzztones,
The Kinks,
Fluxion,
Derrick May,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pagans,
Camberwell Now,
Niagra,
Echospace,
Cluster,
Crash Course in Science,
Don Cherry,
Dawn Penn,
Scan 7,
The Electric Prunes,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Flag,
Tres Demented,
The Names,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Divine Comedy,
Grey Daturas,
The Grass Roots,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Moleskins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Golliwogs,
Pylon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Funkadelic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Little Man,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Animal Collective,
New Age Steppers,
Piero Umiliani,
Carl Craig,
Colin Newman,
Los Fastidios,
Wings,
Neu!,
Idris Muhammad,
China Crisis,
The Gories,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bill Near,
The New Christs,
Lou Reed,
Marmalade,
Mars,
Model 500,
Hot Snakes,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.