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 Mexico and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 Rosa Yemen to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Görl,
The Pretty Things,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Delta 5,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Minor Threat,
The Dead C,
Adolescents,
Chris Corsano,
Graham Central Station,
Swell Maps,
Qualms,
The Gories,
Rekid,
Easy Going,
Dorothy Ashby,
Zapp,
Malaria!,
Man Eating Sloth,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Fania All-Stars,
Siglo XX,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Terry Callier,
Nas,
Scott Walker,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Glenn Branca,
Toni Rubio,
Pagans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Popol Vuh,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Josef K,
Bronski Beat,
A Certain Ratio,
Japan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lucky Dragons,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
James White and The Blacks,
Spandau Ballet,
Essential Logic,
Q and Not U,
The J.B.'s,
Radiohead,
Skriet,
Soulsonic Force,
Nirvana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amon Düül,
Niagra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Duran Duran,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.