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 Venezuela and from Manchester.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar 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 Warren Ellis to the funk 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deakin,
Pulsallama,
The Leaves,
Niagra,
Minor Threat,
Massinfluence,
Dark Day,
The Remains,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Livin' Joy,
John Holt,
Neu!,
Bob Dylan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The American Breed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pylon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Dirtbombs,
Grandmaster Flash,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Moody Blues,
Warsaw,
Matthew Halsall,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rapeman,
the Human League,
Liliput,
Heaven 17,
Tom Boy,
Harmonia,
CMW,
The Raincoats,
The New Christs,
Suicide,
Sparks,
Joe Finger,
Barbara Tucker,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Man Parrish,
The Associates,
Wire,
Grauzone,
Janne Schatter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Germs,
The Seeds,
Drexciya,
Stereo Dub,
The Move,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxette,
Surgeon,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.