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 Estonia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe 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 Barrington Levy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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 Fugs,
Stereo Dub,
Curtis Mayfield,
La Düsseldorf,
Radiohead,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Remains,
Donald Byrd,
Neil Young,
Davy DMX,
Skaos,
Siglo XX,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lakeside,
The Cure,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Martian,
Mars,
Steve Hackett,
Dorothy Ashby,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Soft Cell,
Accadde A,
Absolute Body Control,
The Wake,
Eurythmics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brand Nubian,
Television Personalities,
Joy Division,
Rites of Spring,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Slits,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fortunes,
Unrelated Segments,
Swell Maps,
The Real Kids,
Suicide,
Roy Ayers,
Peter and Kerry,
Max Romeo,
The Busters,
Blake Baxter,
Trumans Water,
Icehouse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Guru Guru,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultravox,
Isaac Hayes,
Sun City Girls,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.