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 Cyprus and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sandy B to the rap 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Radiohead,
Angry Samoans,
OOIOO,
Kenny Larkin,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Walker Brothers,
Yusef Lateef,
Funkadelic,
Warren Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Sällskapet,
Simply Red,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hasil Adkins,
Pagans,
Sparks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Traffic Nightmare,
FM Einheit,
Kaleidoscope,
The Leaves,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Man Eating Sloth,
Panda Bear,
Janne Schatter,
Nils Olav,
Tubeway Army,
The Sound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lightning Bolt,
Eli Mardock,
Jacob Miller,
Porter Ricks,
The Pretty Things,
China Crisis,
Q and Not U,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronnie Foster,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Television Personalities,
Young Marble Giants,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Main Source,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun Ra,
Stereo Dub,
Glenn Branca,
Inner City,
Cabaret Voltaire,
John Foxx,
The Move,
K-Klass,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultra Naté,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.