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 Madagascar and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Aswad to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Outsiders,
Dark Day,
Dave Gahan,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick May,
Alice Coltrane,
Deakin,
MDC,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tubeway Army,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
R.M.O.,
Tom Boy,
Kaleidoscope,
LL Cool J,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Association,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Sheep,
Flash Fearless,
Popol Vuh,
Theoretical Girls,
Robert Hood,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Accadde A,
Hasil Adkins,
Avey Tare,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Mummies,
Jeru the Damaja,
Boz Scaggs,
Model 500,
The Buckinghams,
John Cale,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Leonard Cohen,
David Bowie,
Wolf Eyes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
The Black Dice,
Liliput,
Reuben Wilson,
Television,
Amon Düül II,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Monolake,
The Leaves,
Brothers Johnson,
The Raincoats,
Vainqueur,
Sonic Youth,
Shoche,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Swans,
Chris & Cosey,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.