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 Estonia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Cure to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Traffic Nightmare,
Babytalk,
Man Eating Sloth,
Second Layer,
Model 500,
The Slackers,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Cure,
Excepter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Can,
The Leaves,
Television,
Black Bananas,
The Moody Blues,
Los Fastidios,
Jeff Lynne,
Hashim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Mills,
Maleditus Sound,
Yusef Lateef,
Funky Four + One,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scratch Acid,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Seeds,
Josef K,
Amon Düül II,
The Young Rascals,
Ultra Naté,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camouflage,
DJ Sneak,
cv313,
Quadrant,
Icehouse,
Dawn Penn,
the Germs,
Blancmange,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Arthur Verocai,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Isaac Hayes,
Ponytail,
Cecil Taylor,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Spoonie Gee,
Tom Boy,
Chris Corsano,
Kerri Chandler,
Pulsallama,
Gang Starr,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Lydon,
the Swans,
Mo-Dettes,
The Music Machine,
Outsiders,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.