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 Mauritania and from Toronto.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Michelle Simonal to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Grauzone,
Ice-T,
Minor Threat,
Idris Muhammad,
Whodini,
Lalo Schifrin,
Slave,
Michelle Simonal,
Porter Ricks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ohio Players,
the Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kayak,
Gastr Del Sol,
Agent Orange,
The Flesh Eaters,
Prince Buster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Blake Baxter,
Talk Talk,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dave Gahan,
Nirvana,
Heaven 17,
Alison Limerick,
Howard Jones,
The Seeds,
Unwound,
Rapeman,
Sam Rivers,
Erykah Badu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sight & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DNA,
Jacques Brel,
Circle Jerks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
Lyres,
Laurel Aitken,
Kaleidoscope,
The Slackers,
The Searchers,
Au Pairs,
The Star Department,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oblivians,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
New Order,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Intrusion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Surgeon,
Zapp,
The Young Rascals,
Aural Exciters,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.