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 Liechtenstein and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Michael McDonald 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 Minutemen to the electroclash 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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Nas,
The Skatalites,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Symarip,
Animal Collective,
F. McDonald,
Mark Hollis,
Connie Case,
Eric Copeland,
Fela Kuti,
Section 25,
The Raincoats,
The Moleskins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
La Düsseldorf,
Junior Murvin,
Minny Pops,
Chris Corsano,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Electric Prunes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Radiopuhelimet,
Siglo XX,
David Axelrod,
Roy Ayers,
Eve St. Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Buzzcocks,
Cluster,
Black Pus,
The Angels of Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tres Demented,
Gang of Four,
Blancmange,
Radio Birdman,
Electric Prunes,
Urselle,
Bobby Womack,
Zapp,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Gap Band,
Fad Gadget,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacques Brel,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Throbbing Gristle,
Anakelly,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Kinks,
the Soft Cell,
Derrick May,
The Cowsills,
Johnny Clarke,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
U.S. Maple,
MDC,
The Evens,
Subhumans,
Lucky Dragons,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.