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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Piero Umiliani to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Boz Scaggs,
Alphaville,
Babytalk,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Black Dice,
Lebanon Hanover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Divine Comedy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Das Ding,
Ornette Coleman,
Urselle,
The Young Rascals,
Rhythm & Sound,
Moby Grape,
Mad Mike,
Joe Finger,
The Blackbyrds,
F. McDonald,
Fat Boys,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tubeway Army,
48th St. Collective,
Scott Walker,
Ituana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Excepter,
Lalann,
Los Fastidios,
Gang Green,
The Saints,
Soft Cell,
The Real Kids,
Cybotron,
Scientists,
The Modern Lovers,
Lakeside,
Crime,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Erasure,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Avey Tare,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barry Ungar,
Iggy Pop,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jimmy McGriff,
Surgeon,
The Martian,
The Slackers,
Ossler,
Arcadia,
Lower 48,
Hot Snakes,
The Last Poets,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.