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 El Salvador and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Skaos to the rock 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Rekid,
Talk Talk,
David Axelrod,
The Doobie Brothers,
Television Personalities,
The Associates,
Jacob Miller,
Terrestrial Tones,
Siglo XX,
The Golliwogs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Subhumans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mr. Review,
The Last Poets,
T.S.O.L.,
JFA,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pussy Galore,
D'Angelo,
The Sound,
The Searchers,
Robert Wyatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Tremeloes,
The Durutti Column,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Underground Resistance,
The Real Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
Newcleus,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Vladislav Delay,
The Pretty Things,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gap Band,
Laurel Aitken,
The Buckinghams,
Theoretical Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
ABBA,
Massinfluence,
The Cowsills,
Maleditus Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Liliput,
a-ha,
Dead Boys,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Shuggie Otis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rakim,
Smog,
CMW,
The Seeds,
Skarface,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sugar Minott,
Yaz,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.