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 Nicaragua and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Q and Not U to the rock 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
Minor Threat,
The Fire Engines,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed,
Boredoms,
Marc Almond,
Iggy Pop,
Kenny Larkin,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Robert Hood,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nirvana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pierre Henry,
cv313,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Motions,
Index,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eric Dolphy,
Oblivians,
Morten Harket,
Ornette Coleman,
Toni Rubio,
Agent Orange,
Joey Negro,
The United States of America,
Malaria!,
Sugar Minott,
Harry Pussy,
Clear Light,
Todd Terry,
Sight & Sound,
E-Dancer,
Grey Daturas,
The Happenings,
Bauhaus,
The Leaves,
Delta 5,
Terry Callier,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gichy Dan,
Kas Product,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Angels of Light,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Roger Hodgson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gang of Four,
Minutemen,
Jandek,
Cheater Slicks,
Faraquet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.