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 Austria and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Pop Group to the dance 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Sonic Youth,
Jimmy McGriff,
Al Stewart,
Sun Ra,
The Fire Engines,
Sam Rivers,
One Last Wish,
The Residents,
Matthew Bourne,
Max Romeo,
Jeff Mills,
Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ossler,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sparks,
Bob Dylan,
The Dirtbombs,
The Move,
Pulsallama,
Wire,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
ABC,
Scott Walker,
Crime,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Swans,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mantronix,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cecil Taylor,
kango's stein massive,
Ornette Coleman,
John Holt,
Parry Music,
Charles Mingus,
Neu!,
The Durutti Column,
Anakelly,
Quadrant,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Divine Comedy,
Fugazi,
a-ha,
Jerry's Kids,
Ronnie Foster,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
D'Angelo,
The Wake,
Motorama,
Yazoo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Evens,
Roxy Music,
Sun City Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.