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 Kenya and from London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sällskapet to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Misunderstood,
The Leaves,
Crispian St. Peters,
Magma,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Hood,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Near,
Depeche Mode,
Minutemen,
Metal Thangz,
The Gladiators,
Lalo Schifrin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Standells,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blake Baxter,
Johnny Clarke,
Fatback Band,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
the Normal,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers,
Severed Heads,
Derrick May,
Nation of Ulysses,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Excepter,
Marc Almond,
Joey Negro,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Toasters,
a-ha,
Pussy Galore,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Byrd,
Tres Demented,
Deakin,
Angry Samoans,
Monolake,
K-Klass,
Patti Smith,
Reuben Wilson,
Ohio Players,
Faraquet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Procol Harum,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Flash Fearless,
Circle Jerks,
Aloha Tigers,
Jerry's Kids,
Slave,
Oneida,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.