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 Mauritania and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Robert Palmer 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 Black Moon to the electroclash 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Joensuu 1685,
Roger Hodgson,
Urselle,
Flash Fearless,
This Heat,
The Victims,
the Germs,
The Pretty Things,
Circle Jerks,
Brass Construction,
The Skatalites,
Visage,
Tommy Roe,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Depeche Mode,
Wings,
Slick Rick,
The Last Poets,
Wolf Eyes,
Skaos,
Crash Course in Science,
Cymande,
PIL,
Sex Pistols,
Moss Icon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chris & Cosey,
Morten Harket,
Interpol,
Groovy Waters,
Aloha Tigers,
Fad Gadget,
Severed Heads,
Technova,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gun Club,
In Retrospect,
Subhumans,
Sister Nancy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barry Ungar,
AZ,
Agitation Free,
8 Eyed Spy,
KRS-One,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Easy Going,
Pulsallama,
The Music Machine,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sound Behaviour,
Rufus Thomas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Altered Images,
Scientists,
kango's stein massive,
Rites of Spring,
Jandek,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.