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 Kenya and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Smog to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Fear,
Mission of Burma,
Ludus,
Pantaleimon,
The Young Rascals,
Steve Hackett,
Bang On A Can,
Ponytail,
Cal Tjader,
Soft Cell,
Mark Hollis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Organ,
The Techniques,
The Star Department,
Nik Kershaw,
Glambeats Corp.,
Buzzcocks,
The Music Machine,
La Düsseldorf,
Absolute Body Control,
Isaac Hayes,
Anakelly,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
a-ha,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pantytec,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fire Engines,
Supertramp,
Derrick May,
The Associates,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Sheep,
Lalann,
Marc Almond,
The Moleskins,
Lightning Bolt,
Man Parrish,
Yusef Lateef,
The Index,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bauhaus,
Fugazi,
Skriet,
Easy Going,
Sixth Finger,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DJ Sneak,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Silicon Teens,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blake Baxter,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.