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 East Timor and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hashim to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Motorama,
The Raincoats,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rod Modell,
Ohio Players,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
Fugazi,
Pagans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Association,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tropical Tobacco,
James White and The Blacks,
Wally Richardson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pet Shop Boys,
Carl Craig,
Echospace,
Yaz,
Joyce Sims,
E-Dancer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skarface,
The Cramps,
Reuben Wilson,
Ultravox,
The Residents,
The Happenings,
Lower 48,
Stereo Dub,
MDC,
The Slits,
The Offenders,
The Associates,
The Remains,
Andrew Hill,
This Heat,
Johnny Clarke,
Glenn Branca,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Faraquet,
Marvin Gaye,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
kango's stein massive,
Ken Boothe,
David Axelrod,
Bad Manners,
DJ Sneak,
Faust,
the Sonics,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Inner City,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Slick Rick,
Robert Görl,
Index,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.