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 Tajikistan and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
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 linndrum 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 Banda Bassotti to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Joensuu 1685,
Faust,
Neil Young,
Essential Logic,
Peter & Gordon,
Saccharine Trust,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Talk Talk,
Slave,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Normal,
Pagans,
Ituana,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thompson Twins,
Skarface,
Ken Boothe,
Tommy Roe,
Isaac Hayes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Can,
The Moody Blues,
Barbara Tucker,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lindisfarne,
James White and The Blacks,
These Immortal Souls,
Aloha Tigers,
Bootsy Collins,
Nik Kershaw,
Anthony Braxton,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
World's Most,
Cymande,
Gabor Szabo,
Excepter,
Terrestrial Tones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fluxion,
Soul II Soul,
a-ha,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Sound,
Little Man,
Moebius,
Soft Cell,
Albert Ayler,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Absolute Body Control,
Alice Coltrane,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Fear,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ohio Players,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Darondo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.