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 Finland and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Davy DMX to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Excepter,
Q and Not U,
Wolf Eyes,
Lalann,
Danielle Patucci,
Judy Mowatt,
Sarah Menescal,
Rites of Spring,
Easy Going,
Technova,
DNA,
MDC,
Moss Icon,
Organ,
Gang Green,
Graham Central Station,
The Velvet Underground,
Pulsallama,
Gabor Szabo,
Tomorrow,
Brass Construction,
Funkadelic,
Don Cherry,
The Fortunes,
Fela Kuti,
Suburban Knight,
The Slackers,
Hasil Adkins,
Simply Red,
Black Flag,
The Standells,
Bobby Sherman,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Grass Roots,
Aaron Thompson,
Soft Cell,
Newcleus,
The Associates,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yellowson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stiv Bators,
The Residents,
The Human League,
the Association,
Hoover,
Public Enemy,
ABC,
The Vogues,
X-Ray Spex,
Prince Buster,
Bush Tetras,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The New Christs,
UT,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Minny Pops,
Ponytail,
The Dirtbombs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.