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 Bhutan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 Scratch Acid to the grime 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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Robert Görl,
Faraquet,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lightning Bolt,
Barclay James Harvest,
Drexciya,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Derrick May,
Lakeside,
Ice-T,
Massinfluence,
Gang of Four,
Dawn Penn,
Althea and Donna,
Lebanon Hanover,
Todd Terry,
Goldenarms,
The Gap Band,
Dead Boys,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Leaves,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Zeros,
Nick Fraelich,
The Buckinghams,
Dual Sessions,
Eve St. Jones,
Oblivians,
Infiniti,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Fugs,
The Count Five,
MC5,
Guru Guru,
The Offenders,
The Modern Lovers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marcia Griffiths,
Boogie Down Productions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soul II Soul,
Mr. Review,
Darondo,
Sonic Youth,
John Cale,
Amon Düül,
The Barracudas,
The Standells,
Morten Harket,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Joe Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Magma,
Underground Resistance,
the Human League,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.