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 Venezuela and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet 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 Skarface to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sex Pistols,
AZ,
Intrusion,
Alphaville,
Joy Division,
Skaos,
The Shadows of Knight,
Radiopuhelimet,
Connie Case,
Main Source,
Absolute Body Control,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Delta 5,
Piero Umiliani,
Siglo XX,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wally Richardson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Harpers Bizarre,
Los Fastidios,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Offenders,
The Stooges,
Peter & Gordon,
Spoonie Gee,
Neil Young,
Aural Exciters,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-Ray Spex,
Marmalade,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Godley & Creme,
Audionom,
The Electric Prunes,
The Invisible,
Harmonia,
Ludus,
Brand Nubian,
Nik Kershaw,
Ken Boothe,
Robert Hood,
Thompson Twins,
Excepter,
Organ,
Cameo,
The Cramps,
Pantytec,
The Music Machine,
Max Romeo,
Judy Mowatt,
Sight & Sound,
Rakim,
Sonic Youth,
The Vogues,
John Lydon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.