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 Slovakia and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 güiro 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 Animal Collective 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Fluxion,
Ultravox,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Motorama,
Crispy Ambulance,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crime,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Anakelly,
Reagan Youth,
Mad Mike,
Hashim,
DJ Sneak,
The Human League,
Soul II Soul,
David Axelrod,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dual Sessions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Erykah Badu,
John Cale,
Severed Heads,
The Velvet Underground,
The United States of America,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gun Club,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joy Division,
Joyce Sims,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Toni Rubio,
Pylon,
The Move,
The Monks,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minny Pops,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gap Band,
Deadbeat,
Nirvana,
Mo-Dettes,
New York Dolls,
Sixth Finger,
Barrington Levy,
Jerry's Kids,
Sonic Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Juan Atkins,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
JFA,
The Litter,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.