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 Barbados and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Tubeway Army to the electroclash 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Khruangbin,
R.M.O.,
Oneida,
The Standells,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Smoke,
Visage,
Aloha Tigers,
Drexciya,
Sam Rivers,
Johnny Clarke,
Crash Course in Science,
Skaos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
the Swans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tres Demented,
Wire,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Terry,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gregory Isaacs,
Shoche,
Essential Logic,
Trumans Water,
Radiopuhelimet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rapeman,
Black Moon,
Sex Pistols,
Scott Walker,
The Raincoats,
The Slits,
Matthew Halsall,
The Cramps,
Bizarre Inc.,
Duran Duran,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lungfish,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Searchers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deadbeat,
Pantaleimon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nils Olav,
The Cowsills,
Newcleus,
Jawbox,
Intrusion,
Eric B and Rakim,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tomorrow,
Angry Samoans,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wolf Eyes,
Matthew Bourne,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.