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 Ghana and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Silicon Teens,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
Man Parrish,
Ronnie Foster,
Cal Tjader,
David McCallum,
Warren Ellis,
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Moss Icon,
Wally Richardson,
Godley & Creme,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül II,
The Music Machine,
Franke,
The Victims,
Marmalade,
The Blues Magoos,
Siglo XX,
Graham Central Station,
The Residents,
Frankie Knuckles,
X-101,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Aaron Thompson,
A Certain Ratio,
The Grass Roots,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sonic Youth,
Erasure,
Banda Bassotti,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed,
La Düsseldorf,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mission of Burma,
Masters at Work,
Thompson Twins,
Max Romeo,
The Last Poets,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Lungfish,
The Fall,
Make Up,
Adolescents,
Porter Ricks,
Charles Mingus,
Von Mondo,
Ken Boothe,
The Doors,
The Techniques,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Desert Stars,
the Slits, the Slits, the Slits, the Slits.
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.