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 Armenia and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 Dennis Brown to the rock 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Cecil Taylor,
cv313,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fatback Band,
Hot Snakes,
Cheater Slicks,
Aural Exciters,
The Doors,
Lyres,
Girls At Our Best!,
Can,
Intrusion,
Babytalk,
Goldenarms,
Minor Threat,
Visage,
Echospace,
The Martian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swans,
Chrome,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Trojans,
Blossom Toes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dual Sessions,
Roxy Music,
Minny Pops,
The Toasters,
Andrew Hill,
Drexciya,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Inner City,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Second Layer,
the Soft Cell,
Rapeman,
Bauhaus,
Charles Mingus,
Arthur Verocai,
Animal Collective,
the Sonics,
Depeche Mode,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The American Breed,
The Modern Lovers,
Peter & Gordon,
Mo-Dettes,
The Pretty Things,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sparks,
Joey Negro,
Gang Starr,
Chris Corsano,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siglo XX,
John Lydon,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.