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 Cape Verde and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Wire,
The Moleskins,
L. Decosne,
the Soft Cell,
Newcleus,
Pussy Galore,
Intrusion,
Jesper Dahlback,
UT,
Funky Four + One,
The Sound,
the Normal,
Yusef Lateef,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ten City,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Das Ding,
Blake Baxter,
Television Personalities,
Desert Stars,
Fad Gadget,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Severed Heads,
Lee Hazlewood,
Malaria!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ponytail,
The Cowsills,
Saccharine Trust,
Sun Ra,
Smog,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Byrd,
Todd Rundgren,
The Remains,
Tim Buckley,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Doobie Brothers,
Agitation Free,
Josef K,
David McCallum,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Easy Going,
ABC,
Radiohead,
Pagans,
Zapp,
Warsaw,
Mo-Dettes,
Niagra,
Echospace,
The Zeros,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eurythmics,
Lightning Bolt,
The Leaves,
Marc Almond,
PIL,
The Gories,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.