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 Greece and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 arpeggiator 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Loose Ends,
Monks,
The Cowsills,
Chris & Cosey,
Blake Baxter,
Half Japanese,
The Shadows of Knight,
Groovy Waters,
Fat Boys,
Tom Boy,
The Mummies,
Peter & Gordon,
Albert Ayler,
Judy Mowatt,
Ronan,
John Lydon,
Maleditus Sound,
Basic Channel,
One Last Wish,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wire,
Average White Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lou Christie,
Dark Day,
Newcleus,
Q65,
Morten Harket,
MDC,
Crime,
Yellowson,
K-Klass,
Joey Negro,
The Trojans,
Country Teasers,
Cluster,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
The Real Kids,
Aloha Tigers,
Wally Richardson,
Avey Tare,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tommy Roe,
Amazonics,
Joy Division,
Infiniti,
Glenn Branca,
Delta 5,
Nik Kershaw,
The Golliwogs,
Rufus Thomas,
F. McDonald,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ultra Naté,
Idris Muhammad,
Marshall Jefferson,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.