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 Macedonia and from New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Joy Division to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Mission of Burma,
Deepchord,
Kayak,
The Gladiators,
Kurtis Blow,
Mandrill,
PIL,
Severed Heads,
Arcadia,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fluxion,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Cowsills,
Lower 48,
Negative Approach,
Black Flag,
Barclay James Harvest,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Funky Four + One,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Sheep,
K-Klass,
Jacob Miller,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Lydon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Suicide,
Jeru the Damaja,
Procol Harum,
Goldenarms,
Country Teasers,
Rod Modell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Stooges,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Association,
Anthony Braxton,
Terry Callier,
The Zeros,
Johnny Clarke,
T.S.O.L.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Aswad,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
10cc,
Babytalk,
Yusef Lateef,
Radio Birdman,
E-Dancer,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thee Headcoats,
Pantaleimon,
One Last Wish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.