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 East Timor and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 The Victims to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Flash Fearless,
The Zeros,
Matthew Bourne,
Camouflage,
Crime,
Unwound,
The Fuzztones,
Television Personalities,
Mars,
Ronnie Foster,
Outsiders,
L. Decosne,
Depeche Mode,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gladiators,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joy Division,
T. Rex,
Alphaville,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gong,
John Cale,
The Five Americans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pulsallama,
Vainqueur,
Television,
Lucky Dragons,
Anthony Braxton,
Index,
Sly & The Family Stone,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wire,
Ornette Coleman,
Skriet,
The Standells,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker,
Avey Tare,
The Sonics,
Blossom Toes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nirvana,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Q and Not U,
Sun City Girls,
Ice-T,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
LL Cool J,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crash Course in Science,
Joey Negro,
Donald Byrd,
Erasure,
Delta 5,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Minnie Riperton,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.