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 Denmark and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ten City to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Das Ding,
Accadde A,
Liliput,
Isaac Hayes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bill Wells,
Skaos,
Lightning Bolt,
Audionom,
Procol Harum,
The Residents,
Talk Talk,
The Birthday Party,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Don Cherry,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
E-Dancer,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Mad Mike,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fuzztones,
Black Flag,
Davy DMX,
Pere Ubu,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brass Construction,
the Slits,
The Angels of Light,
Matthew Bourne,
Deepchord,
Aloha Tigers,
Sparks,
Siglo XX,
Pantaleimon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
The Divine Comedy,
Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Average White Band,
Franke,
Prince Buster,
Yellowson,
The New Christs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Juan Atkins,
John Holt,
Basic Channel,
Cameo,
David McCallum,
Fugazi,
Magma,
ABBA,
Mark Hollis,
Bill Near,
The Count Five,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.