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 Liechtenstein and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jandek to the grunge 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jandek,
Negative Approach,
Cymande,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Quando Quango,
Rosa Yemen,
Interpol,
Oblivians,
Tubeway Army,
Das Ding,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dave Gahan,
The Saints,
The Divine Comedy,
Lalann,
Funkadelic,
The Count Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
E-Dancer,
Peter & Gordon,
Tres Demented,
Yusef Lateef,
Grey Daturas,
Brand Nubian,
New York Dolls,
Radiohead,
Slick Rick,
T.S.O.L.,
The Kinks,
Khruangbin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Howard Jones,
Gang Gang Dance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Metal Thangz,
Popol Vuh,
Drive Like Jehu,
Minutemen,
The Fire Engines,
Warsaw,
World's Most,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skriet,
The Walker Brothers,
Pussy Galore,
Excepter,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Golliwogs,
the Germs,
Flash Fearless,
Severed Heads,
Intrusion,
Donny Hathaway,
Dorothy Ashby,
Maleditus Sound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Idris Muhammad,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.