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 Belarus 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord 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 The Dave Clark Five to the rock 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Soul II Soul,
The Moleskins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Flash Fearless,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Yellowson,
Tomorrow,
Glambeats Corp.,
Main Source,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Black Moon,
Peter & Gordon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Vogues,
Marcia Griffiths,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Zero Boys,
Ohio Players,
The Real Kids,
Man Parrish,
The Pop Group,
Scan 7,
Echospace,
Oblivians,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cowsills,
Tears for Fears,
The Alarm Clocks,
Buzzcocks,
The Slackers,
The Beau Brummels,
The Index,
Brass Construction,
Spandau Ballet,
Yusef Lateef,
The Golliwogs,
The Litter,
John Lydon,
Crispian St. Peters,
X-Ray Spex,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warsaw,
Sonic Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Robert Wyatt,
Robert Hood,
DNA,
Deadbeat,
Altered Images,
Pet Shop Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Wake,
Erykah Badu,
Royal Trux,
T.S.O.L.,
Livin' Joy,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.