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 South Africa and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe 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 Vladislav Delay 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Unwound,
Icehouse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Faraquet,
Masters at Work,
World's Most,
Cheater Slicks,
Second Layer,
La Düsseldorf,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Absolute Body Control,
Susan Cadogan,
Joe Finger,
Bronski Beat,
Rufus Thomas,
The Motions,
Nick Fraelich,
Shuggie Otis,
The Cramps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pagans,
Minor Threat,
Gichy Dan,
Jeru the Damaja,
These Immortal Souls,
Hardrive,
Lou Reed,
Matthew Halsall,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
B.T. Express,
June Days,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Vogues,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
UT,
Connie Case,
Aswad,
Michelle Simonal,
Byron Stingily,
Gong,
FM Einheit,
Mantronix,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flipper,
Lakeside,
Clear Light,
Scratch Acid,
This Heat,
Pussy Galore,
Amazonics,
Dave Gahan,
Al Stewart,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barrington Levy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
MDC,
The Fortunes,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.