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 Sudan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Moby Grape to the punk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Rotary Connection,
Joey Negro,
Alison Limerick,
Reuben Wilson,
Half Japanese,
Liliput,
The Durutti Column,
Danielle Patucci,
Ponytail,
Ten City,
Slick Rick,
Amon Düül,
World's Most,
The New Christs,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Pop Group,
Aural Exciters,
Anakelly,
Moebius,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lower 48,
Maleditus Sound,
Charles Mingus,
Ronnie Foster,
Sonic Youth,
Fluxion,
Connie Case,
Ituana,
Darondo,
Malaria!,
Sixth Finger,
Skriet,
the Germs,
X-101,
Laurel Aitken,
Marine Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Fugazi,
Groovy Waters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Leonard Cohen,
The Trojans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultimate Spinach,
KRS-One,
Michelle Simonal,
Pagans,
Alphaville,
DJ Sneak,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Goldenarms,
The Music Machine,
The Standells,
Faraquet,
The Techniques,
Roxy Music,
Young Marble Giants,
PIL,
Depeche Mode,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.