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 Haiti and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 The Beau Brummels to the dance 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Vladislav Delay,
Unrelated Segments,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Khruangbin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
Sonic Youth,
The Star Department,
Guru Guru,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pole,
The Remains,
Siglo XX,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Kinks,
Albert Ayler,
The Angels of Light,
The Move,
Dave Gahan,
Matthew Halsall,
Flash Fearless,
the Germs,
Juan Atkins,
Mad Mike,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cameo,
Swans,
LL Cool J,
Reagan Youth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mandrill,
Monks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Vogues,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Young Rascals,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Moebius,
Howard Jones,
K-Klass,
Joe Smooth,
Hoover,
Thompson Twins,
Arthur Verocai,
Lalo Schifrin,
Liliput,
Rotary Connection,
the Bar-Kays,
Interpol,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Whodini,
Man Parrish,
Chrome,
Sugar Minott,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Archie Shepp,
World's Most,
Iggy Pop,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.