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 Swaziland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 Buzzcocks to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
cv313,
The Remains,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aural Exciters,
Essential Logic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Tremeloes,
The Buckinghams,
Absolute Body Control,
Derrick Morgan,
Reuben Wilson,
MC5,
Kerri Chandler,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Selecter,
Cameo,
Neil Young,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Charles Mingus,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry's Kids,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Unrelated Segments,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Warren Ellis,
The Gories,
The Five Americans,
Morten Harket,
China Crisis,
The Raincoats,
Procol Harum,
The Pop Group,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boredoms,
Stereo Dub,
Magazine,
Quadrant,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Buzzcocks,
Gichy Dan,
Youth Brigade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Grass Roots,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Fortunes,
The Residents,
T. Rex,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lightning Bolt,
Ornette Coleman,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sister Nancy,
Babytalk,
Schoolly D,
Country Teasers,
Rites of Spring,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.