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 Djibouti and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Slackers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Panda Bear,
Essential Logic,
Gang of Four,
Grauzone,
The Neon Judgement,
Duran Duran,
Nik Kershaw,
Tom Boy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
B.T. Express,
Anakelly,
John Foxx,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cure,
Lyres,
Cymande,
Mantronix,
Glenn Branca,
Easy Going,
World's Most,
Bush Tetras,
Soft Machine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Max Romeo,
Archie Shepp,
Mr. Review,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Average White Band,
Al Stewart,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Red Krayola,
The Motions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Donny Hathaway,
Goldenarms,
Jacques Brel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Saccharine Trust,
Man Parrish,
Rotary Connection,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry Gold Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ornette Coleman,
Sun Ra,
Television,
The Misunderstood,
Lucky Dragons,
Metal Thangz,
Letta Mbulu,
Wings,
The Barracudas,
Robert Görl,
The Gories,
Chrome,
The Martian,
Stereo Dub,
Soulsonic Force,
The Offenders,
The Doors,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.