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 Indonesia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet 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 X-101 to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Young Rascals,
The Cowsills,
The Zeros,
Faraquet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vainqueur,
The Pretty Things,
The Birthday Party,
Hot Snakes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joensuu 1685,
Eden Ahbez,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rapeman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Organ,
Bauhaus,
Idris Muhammad,
Blancmange,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Doobie Brothers,
Slave,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed,
John Foxx,
Mantronix,
Brick,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aaron Thompson,
Scion,
This Heat,
Rotary Connection,
Das Ding,
The Skatalites,
Funky Four + One,
Liliput,
Jeff Lynne,
Grauzone,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Swans,
Ornette Coleman,
Angry Samoans,
Alton Ellis,
The Kinks,
Infiniti,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soulsonic Force,
James White and The Blacks,
Janne Schatter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sister Nancy,
Yusef Lateef,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bootsy Collins,
Skaos,
Lindisfarne,
Piero Umiliani,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.