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 Czech Republic and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ornette Coleman,
Faust,
The Victims,
The Grass Roots,
Blossom Toes,
Marshall Jefferson,
KRS-One,
The Walker Brothers,
the Germs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lakeside,
Minor Threat,
Barrington Levy,
PIL,
Japan,
Das Ding,
Model 500,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tomorrow,
Jacob Miller,
The Trojans,
Half Japanese,
Kevin Saunderson,
Groovy Waters,
Wally Richardson,
Ten City,
Grey Daturas,
cv313,
Lucky Dragons,
The Selecter,
ABC,
Junior Murvin,
Barry Ungar,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soul II Soul,
Scion,
MC5,
Al Stewart,
Ronan,
Metal Thangz,
Deakin,
Little Man,
Curtis Mayfield,
Popol Vuh,
John Coltrane,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Pop Group,
Amazonics,
Josef K,
Oneida,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kaleidoscope,
Skarface,
The Angels of Light,
Fatback Band,
Albert Ayler,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.