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 Nauru and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 B.T. Express to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Icehouse,
Can,
The Modern Lovers,
Fatback Band,
Mark Hollis,
JFA,
Fat Boys,
The Kinks,
Y Pants,
Ken Boothe,
Rufus Thomas,
FM Einheit,
Schoolly D,
Peter & Gordon,
The Victims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick May,
Joe Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
R.M.O.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ohio Players,
Reagan Youth,
Blancmange,
Lucky Dragons,
Sonic Youth,
The Seeds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tommy Roe,
Visage,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ponytail,
The Tremeloes,
The Human League,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mr. Review,
Warren Ellis,
Dark Day,
The Cowsills,
The Gories,
Vainqueur,
8 Eyed Spy,
Byron Stingily,
the Soft Cell,
Magazine,
Deepchord,
Nico,
Massinfluence,
Matthew Bourne,
Tom Boy,
Soft Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.