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 Congo and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 MDC to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Chris Corsano,
Blancmange,
Suicide,
John Foxx,
Junior Murvin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
JFA,
Circle Jerks,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Standells,
Goldenarms,
Derrick Morgan,
Erykah Badu,
Television Personalities,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Bananas,
Franke,
Stiv Bators,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sun Ra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Severed Heads,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fatback Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Monolake,
Peter and Kerry,
The Trojans,
Joey Negro,
Tears for Fears,
AZ,
Basic Channel,
Moebius,
ABC,
Los Fastidios,
Quando Quango,
Amazonics,
Brothers Johnson,
Blake Baxter,
H. Thieme,
cv313,
Todd Terry,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young,
Drive Like Jehu,
Essential Logic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ornette Coleman,
Pierre Henry,
X-102,
Anakelly,
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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.