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 Dominica and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mojo Men to the jazz 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Associates,
Anakelly,
Fela Kuti,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pierre Henry,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ornette Coleman,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Altered Images,
Minor Threat,
Essential Logic,
Dawn Penn,
Ronnie Foster,
Liliput,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Techniques,
Nils Olav,
Kurtis Blow,
Mantronix,
Audionom,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Soft Cell,
E-Dancer,
Tommy Roe,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fall,
Pantaleimon,
Mr. Review,
Surgeon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Wake,
10cc,
Khruangbin,
The Busters,
Talk Talk,
Ultra Naté,
Piero Umiliani,
New York Dolls,
The Young Rascals,
Prince Buster,
Derrick Morgan,
The Kinks,
Heaven 17,
Gang Gang Dance,
Crash Course in Science,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soul II Soul,
Gang of Four,
cv313,
The Remains,
Sun Ra,
The Invisible,
D'Angelo,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shoche,
The Real Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
The Misunderstood,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.