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 Ethiopia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ 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 Sällskapet to the dance 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Unrelated Segments,
Scion,
Pierre Henry,
Cal Tjader,
X-101,
DNA,
X-102,
Rufus Thomas,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Peter & Gordon,
LL Cool J,
H. Thieme,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slave,
Bobby Sherman,
Adolescents,
Idris Muhammad,
Donny Hathaway,
JFA,
Second Layer,
Gichy Dan,
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Tommy Roe,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cluster,
Circle Jerks,
Delta 5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roxy Music,
Harmonia,
Silicon Teens,
Junior Murvin,
James White and The Blacks,
Michelle Simonal,
Marmalade,
Make Up,
Masters at Work,
The Residents,
Sister Nancy,
Vainqueur,
Excepter,
Absolute Body Control,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Whodini,
Rakim,
Juan Atkins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Terry Callier,
Trumans Water,
Panda Bear,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.