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 Ukraine and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ludus to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
MDC,
Faust,
Jawbox,
The New Christs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fall,
Young Marble Giants,
Aaron Thompson,
Donny Hathaway,
The United States of America,
David McCallum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Camberwell Now,
Accadde A,
Outsiders,
Agitation Free,
The Grass Roots,
Liliput,
the Germs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
DJ Style,
The Doors,
Lou Christie,
Silicon Teens,
A Certain Ratio,
Erykah Badu,
Can,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
T. Rex,
Index,
Scratch Acid,
Scan 7,
Minnie Riperton,
Freddie Wadling,
Wasted Youth,
The Techniques,
Derrick May,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Country Teasers,
Godley & Creme,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lalo Schifrin,
U.S. Maple,
Magma,
Symarip,
Half Japanese,
Subhumans,
Pere Ubu,
The Last Poets,
Wally Richardson,
Kayak,
The Toasters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Erasure,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker,
Curtis Mayfield,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.