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 Pakistan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Lou Reed 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 Neu! to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Maurizio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scott Walker,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jandek,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Connie Case,
The Kinks,
Vainqueur,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Misunderstood,
Khruangbin,
Bluetip,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
cv313,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Christie,
Rekid,
The Skatalites,
The Motions,
Tim Buckley,
Derrick Morgan,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Golliwogs,
Agitation Free,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Niagra,
U.S. Maple,
Morten Harket,
Wings,
Unwound,
Bronski Beat,
Minutemen,
Alton Ellis,
The Residents,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Youth Brigade,
Throbbing Gristle,
Scratch Acid,
The Grass Roots,
Bauhaus,
Fluxion,
Jacob Miller,
Eli Mardock,
Vladislav Delay,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Tremeloes,
Tomorrow,
Stetsasonic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Evens,
Neil Young,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.