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 France and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron 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 Funky Four + One to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Gichy Dan,
Adolescents,
The Fire Engines,
Eric Dolphy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bob Dylan,
Jeff Mills,
The Neon Judgement,
Ohio Players,
DJ Sneak,
Franke,
Minnie Riperton,
The Smoke,
The Leaves,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
Bill Near,
The Zeros,
Marmalade,
Joy Division,
Stereo Dub,
Liliput,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Todd Terry,
Eden Ahbez,
Bush Tetras,
Deakin,
cv313,
Rekid,
Zero Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Alton Ellis,
Niagra,
Guru Guru,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barry Ungar,
Steve Hackett,
The Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Halsall,
Shuggie Otis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Warren Ellis,
Brass Construction,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobby Womack,
Los Fastidios,
Bauhaus,
Minor Threat,
The Angels of Light,
Basic Channel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Man Parrish,
Derrick May,
John Coltrane,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.