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 Qatar and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lille.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Carl Craig,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Electric Prunes,
Letta Mbulu,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Qualms,
Derrick May,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
Stiv Bators,
Ponytail,
Fugazi,
Suicide,
Q65,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalann,
Dark Day,
The Smiths,
the Association,
Idris Muhammad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxy Music,
Juan Atkins,
OOIOO,
Oblivians,
Fat Boys,
EPMD,
Peter and Kerry,
Tropical Tobacco,
In Retrospect,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Slits,
Bootsy Collins,
The Blackbyrds,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pulsallama,
Curtis Mayfield,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
FM Einheit,
Kayak,
Prince Buster,
Television Personalities,
Sandy B,
Swell Maps,
Duran Duran,
The Motions,
Lyres,
Livin' Joy,
Camberwell Now,
Dual Sessions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Technova,
Arcadia,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.