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 Micronesia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer 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 Moby Grape to the techno 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones 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?
Nas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Leaves,
Janne Schatter,
Unwound,
Ronnie Foster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neil Young,
Camouflage,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moebius,
Gong,
Inner City,
The J.B.'s,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Fania All-Stars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camberwell Now,
Black Moon,
John Foxx,
Howard Jones,
Adolescents,
The Cramps,
The Standells,
Roxette,
Surgeon,
Smog,
Nirvana,
Neu!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Archie Shepp,
Michelle Simonal,
The Birthday Party,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deadbeat,
Henry Cow,
Matthew Bourne,
Niagra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Starr,
Ohio Players,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Wells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Darondo,
Bluetip,
Mandrill,
Jacques Brel,
The Stooges,
Morten Harket,
The Monochrome Set,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Christie,
The United States of America,
Sight & Sound,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Knickerbockers,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.