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 Kiribati and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 Echospace to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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 Barracudas,
Scan 7,
Brass Construction,
Girls At Our Best!,
Heaven 17,
Joe Smooth,
Danielle Patucci,
Khruangbin,
Von Mondo,
Carl Craig,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Bananas,
The Gories,
Crime,
Minnie Riperton,
The Selecter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Malaria!,
The Victims,
The New Christs,
These Immortal Souls,
Ronan,
Das Ding,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Swell Maps,
Kerri Chandler,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Crash Course in Science,
The Trojans,
The Gladiators,
Delta 5,
Lou Christie,
The Evens,
Loose Ends,
Godley & Creme,
Chris Corsano,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
June Days,
The Neon Judgement,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Colin Newman,
Stereo Dub,
Sixth Finger,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Style,
Sugar Minott,
Lalann,
Arthur Verocai,
Minny Pops,
The Stooges,
Fatback Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Anakelly,
Erasure,
Fugazi,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.