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 India and from Woodstock.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Boz Scaggs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pierre Henry,
Bauhaus,
The Sound,
Youth Brigade,
The Trojans,
Saccharine Trust,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Accadde A,
Bronski Beat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-102,
Jandek,
Cameo,
Drexciya,
Masters at Work,
Faust,
Soft Machine,
Amazonics,
Make Up,
Underground Resistance,
T. Rex,
Kerri Chandler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Wings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Banda Bassotti,
Todd Rundgren,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Robert Wyatt,
Thompson Twins,
Moby Grape,
Eve St. Jones,
Ken Boothe,
David McCallum,
Harmonia,
Mad Mike,
Radio Birdman,
Brass Construction,
The Smiths,
The Pop Group,
Flamin' Groovies,
Warsaw,
A Certain Ratio,
Soul Sonic Force,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric Copeland,
Interpol,
Nick Fraelich,
The Skatalites,
Pole,
Nik Kershaw,
Quantec,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.