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 Luxembourg and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Pantaleimon,
Josef K,
Yazoo,
Barbara Tucker,
Rufus Thomas,
Tim Buckley,
The Cure,
Television,
Wire,
Suicide,
Oneida,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soulsonic Force,
Von Mondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Heaven 17,
The Residents,
Vainqueur,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Doors,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Agent Orange,
Dual Sessions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Japan,
Joyce Sims,
Mission of Burma,
Monks,
Laurel Aitken,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Skriet,
Mandrill,
The Black Dice,
World's Most,
Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Carl Craig,
Marmalade,
Parry Music,
Gong,
Sugar Minott,
Sight & Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Holt,
John Lydon,
Janne Schatter,
Funky Four + One,
The Dirtbombs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aloha Tigers,
Althea and Donna,
The Moody Blues,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Count Five,
The Slackers,
Whodini,
Half Japanese,
Bush Tetras,
Massinfluence,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.