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 Slovenia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delta 5 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marmalade,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cecil Taylor,
Danielle Patucci,
Eurythmics,
David Bowie,
The Searchers,
the Human League,
Surgeon,
Alison Limerick,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aaron Thompson,
The Smoke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Urselle,
The Doobie Brothers,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Trojans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nils Olav,
John Cale,
Hashim,
Essential Logic,
Marine Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lower 48,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Chris & Cosey,
Jacques Brel,
Monks,
Yellowson,
Country Teasers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yaz,
Saccharine Trust,
Pole,
Underground Resistance,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camberwell Now,
The Remains,
Sällskapet,
Scion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
PIL,
The Saints,
Pantytec,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Monolake,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
Flipper,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.