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 Japan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 Bizarre Inc. to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
John Lydon,
Joyce Sims,
Pagans,
Morten Harket,
Essential Logic,
David McCallum,
Darondo,
Hardrive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moleskins,
Delon & Dalcan,
Silicon Teens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stetsasonic,
The Blackbyrds,
The Tremeloes,
The Slackers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ponytail,
A Certain Ratio,
OOIOO,
Tears for Fears,
Jeff Lynne,
Scrapy,
Circle Jerks,
Television Personalities,
Q65,
The Cure,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
James White and The Blacks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The New Christs,
Sugar Minott,
Boredoms,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Godley & Creme,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Newcleus,
Von Mondo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eyeless In Gaza,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Matthew Bourne,
Thompson Twins,
Tubeway Army,
Aaron Thompson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Matthew Halsall,
Anakelly,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
K-Klass,
Dark Day,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Flag,
The Fortunes,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.