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 Algeria and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Althea and Donna to the punk 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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dirtbombs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
The Misunderstood,
10cc,
The Associates,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
Eden Ahbez,
ABC,
World's Most,
B.T. Express,
Fluxion,
John Coltrane,
Boz Scaggs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Prince Buster,
Index,
Model 500,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fugs,
R.M.O.,
The Mummies,
a-ha,
Lakeside,
Yazoo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Five Americans,
Yellowson,
Reuben Wilson,
Camouflage,
Sight & Sound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radio Birdman,
Fugazi,
Slick Rick,
Kenny Larkin,
Drexciya,
Ponytail,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Human League,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Cowsills,
Maleditus Sound,
LL Cool J,
Swans,
Iggy Pop,
AZ,
Scan 7,
Depeche Mode,
Gregory Isaacs,
Don Cherry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Buzzcocks,
Toni Rubio,
Peter and Kerry,
Rod Modell,
Faust,
Young Marble Giants,
Arab on Radar,
E-Dancer,
Cameo,
Amon Düül,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.