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 Bhutan and from Halifax.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Byron Stingily to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Tremeloes,
The Fall,
Andrew Hill,
Yellowson,
Scan 7,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
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Moby Grape,
Groovy Waters,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kaleidoscope,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bronski Beat,
Thee Headcoats,
the Association,
Black Bananas,
Soulsonic Force,
Godley & Creme,
Faust,
Minny Pops,
Interpol,
The Gladiators,
Sugar Minott,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gabor Szabo,
Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
Eddi Front,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
L. Decosne,
The Selecter,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alphaville,
Jerry's Kids,
Buzzcocks,
Mars,
the Slits,
The Busters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Dead C,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Funky Four + One,
Skaos,
PIL,
Tres Demented,
Jawbox,
Laurel Aitken,
Sparks,
Quantec,
Sonic Youth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Count Five,
Marvin Gaye,
Josef K,
Erasure,
the Swans,
Bad Manners,
Chris Corsano,
the Sonics,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.