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 El Salvador and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Oneida to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Susan Cadogan,
Marine Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Bill Near,
The Vogues,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
Kayak,
Dead Boys,
Unwound,
Prince Buster,
World's Most,
Bush Tetras,
Marcia Griffiths,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Searchers,
Youth Brigade,
Sonic Youth,
Scrapy,
Infiniti,
The Grass Roots,
Slick Rick,
Shoche,
David Axelrod,
the Soft Cell,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cybotron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pere Ubu,
Massinfluence,
Barry Ungar,
Tom Boy,
The Happenings,
Judy Mowatt,
Yusef Lateef,
The Kinks,
Ronnie Foster,
Godley & Creme,
MDC,
Sarah Menescal,
Johnny Clarke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sam Rivers,
The Golliwogs,
Stetsasonic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang Starr,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gladiators,
Ice-T,
Matthew Bourne,
10cc,
Loose Ends,
Rekid,
Radiohead,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.