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 Cambodia and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 Porter Ricks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Cal Tjader,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Archie Shepp,
The Human League,
Morten Harket,
Cluster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ponytail,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Youth Brigade,
The Pop Group,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gang Starr,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wire,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kas Product,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nik Kershaw,
The Last Poets,
Moss Icon,
Brand Nubian,
Negative Approach,
Kayak,
Amazonics,
Sound Behaviour,
Alton Ellis,
Das Ding,
Rakim,
The Count Five,
The Knickerbockers,
10cc,
The Moleskins,
Maurizio,
X-Ray Spex,
The Names,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fatback Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Junior Murvin,
The Grass Roots,
Barbara Tucker,
KRS-One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cheater Slicks,
The Residents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bronski Beat,
Crime,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobby Womack,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Toni Rubio,
Second Layer,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.