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 Armenia and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 Nico 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Half Japanese,
Thee Headcoats,
The Invisible,
The Litter,
Grey Daturas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soft Machine,
Scratch Acid,
Archie Shepp,
Idris Muhammad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nico,
Masters at Work,
The Grass Roots,
The Offenders,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Hashim,
Rites of Spring,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joe Finger,
Sun Ra,
Jeff Lynne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Television Personalities,
Barry Ungar,
Absolute Body Control,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Star Department,
Hardrive,
Cal Tjader,
Sight & Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ituana,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marvin Gaye,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultimate Spinach,
Amon Düül II,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Goldenarms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Skarface,
The Sound,
B.T. Express,
Al Stewart,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Red Krayola,
Eric Dolphy,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter and Kerry,
Maleditus Sound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Los Fastidios,
The Fugs,
Wings,
Mo-Dettes,
Alphaville,
Neu!,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.