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 Mongolia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 harpsichord 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 Gories to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Evens,
Henry Cow,
Jandek,
Freddie Wadling,
Todd Rundgren,
The Victims,
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Accadde A,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sonics,
The Monochrome Set,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Procol Harum,
The Raincoats,
Second Layer,
Nico,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Youth Brigade,
The Toasters,
Anthony Braxton,
Byron Stingily,
Duran Duran,
Roy Ayers,
The Stooges,
The Smiths,
The Cure,
Boredoms,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fall,
Bad Manners,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marvin Gaye,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crooked Eye,
Leonard Cohen,
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
OOIOO,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller,
Supertramp,
The Star Department,
Sam Rivers,
Deepchord,
Piero Umiliani,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fifty Foot Hose,
KRS-One,
Basic Channel,
Brothers Johnson,
Metal Thangz,
Joensuu 1685,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.