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 India and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Swans to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang Starr,
Yellowson,
Inner City,
Peter & Gordon,
Alice Coltrane,
the Slits,
Derrick Morgan,
Toni Rubio,
Mars,
Tres Demented,
Reagan Youth,
Drexciya,
Gang Green,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Golliwogs,
Supertramp,
Rotary Connection,
Nils Olav,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Maleditus Sound,
The Buckinghams,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Clear Light,
Outsiders,
The Walker Brothers,
LL Cool J,
The Toasters,
Bang On A Can,
OOIOO,
Fat Boys,
Ludus,
Cheater Slicks,
Yusef Lateef,
Delon & Dalcan,
Iggy Pop,
Kas Product,
Terry Callier,
This Heat,
Neil Young,
Wings,
Joe Finger,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eli Mardock,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter and Kerry,
The Mojo Men,
Rakim,
AZ,
The Saints,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Hardrive,
Crime,
Bob Dylan,
Brick,
Public Enemy,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Fania All-Stars,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.