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 Mexico and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lee Hazlewood to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Bush Tetras,
OOIOO,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Order,
Ronnie Foster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
Mark Hollis,
Neil Young,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sound Behaviour,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echospace,
Whodini,
The Vogues,
Joe Smooth,
E-Dancer,
Barrington Levy,
The Beau Brummels,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Fraelich,
The Associates,
Cheater Slicks,
Essential Logic,
Supertramp,
The Young Rascals,
Y Pants,
Bobby Sherman,
Los Fastidios,
Graham Central Station,
Tears for Fears,
John Foxx,
Masters at Work,
Sam Rivers,
Thee Headcoats,
Sarah Menescal,
Rotary Connection,
Soft Cell,
The Wake,
Crash Course in Science,
Suicide,
Unwound,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T. Rex,
Ice-T,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Delta 5,
La Düsseldorf,
Kayak,
Scrapy,
Camberwell Now,
The Gap Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
In Retrospect,
The Fuzztones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
James White and The Blacks,
Ohio Players,
The Slits,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.