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 Singapore 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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe 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 Sugar Minott to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
K-Klass,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pantytec,
Nation of Ulysses,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonic Youth,
Pagans,
the Sonics,
The Stooges,
Y Pants,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eyeless In Gaza,
PIL,
R.M.O.,
Bad Manners,
Nick Fraelich,
Mandrill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
Connie Case,
Niagra,
Japan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Ossler,
the Human League,
DNA,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aswad,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Skatalites,
Davy DMX,
Radiohead,
The Happenings,
Minny Pops,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lightning Bolt,
The Beau Brummels,
Slave,
Erykah Badu,
Terrestrial Tones,
Technova,
Ludus,
Sonny Sharrock,
FM Einheit,
Metal Thangz,
Jacques Brel,
Joe Smooth,
Kurtis Blow,
Man Eating Sloth,
Arcadia,
Joensuu 1685,
Cymande,
the Normal,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.