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 Monaco and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Drive Like Jehu to the grunge 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Drexciya,
Crash Course in Science,
Juan Atkins,
The Invisible,
John Lydon,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Human League,
the Slits,
Technova,
Derrick Morgan,
Albert Ayler,
Bob Dylan,
Camouflage,
Reagan Youth,
Tres Demented,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeff Lynne,
Arthur Verocai,
The Blues Magoos,
Japan,
L. Decosne,
The Kinks,
the Association,
Rites of Spring,
The Monochrome Set,
The Remains,
Black Sheep,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Franke,
The Cure,
Donald Byrd,
Warren Ellis,
The Moleskins,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ossler,
Unwound,
Bronski Beat,
Barry Ungar,
Vainqueur,
Nico,
Ludus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jacob Miller,
Spandau Ballet,
T.S.O.L.,
Excepter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eric Dolphy,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun City Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
10cc,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Heaven 17,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.