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 Afghanistan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
The Pop Group,
The Slackers,
Davy DMX,
The Electric Prunes,
The Skatalites,
E-Dancer,
The Blues Magoos,
Clear Light,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Country Teasers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Funkadelic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dead Boys,
Severed Heads,
Anakelly,
Boogie Down Productions,
Throbbing Gristle,
Whodini,
Television,
The Selecter,
The American Breed,
Patti Smith,
10cc,
the Germs,
Faust,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pierre Henry,
Howard Jones,
Bad Manners,
Fugazi,
Q and Not U,
Kenny Larkin,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
The Walker Brothers,
Young Marble Giants,
Wally Richardson,
The Saints,
Easy Going,
The Pretty Things,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Swans,
Maleditus Sound,
David Axelrod,
Boz Scaggs,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Golliwogs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang Green,
The Gories,
Massinfluence,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Supertramp,
Black Moon,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.