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 Burkina and from New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Blues Magoos to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
The Monks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fear,
The Fuzztones,
Scrapy,
Adolescents,
Ronan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Intrusion,
John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
Judy Mowatt,
Section 25,
Susan Cadogan,
Spandau Ballet,
Gichy Dan,
Peter & Gordon,
Jandek,
Nik Kershaw,
Carl Craig,
Bootsy Collins,
Mandrill,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
The Gun Club,
The Vogues,
Minutemen,
Essential Logic,
Pulsallama,
Lightning Bolt,
Rod Modell,
The Barracudas,
Hot Snakes,
The Knickerbockers,
Index,
Kurtis Blow,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Grass Roots,
Warren Ellis,
LL Cool J,
Alphaville,
Echospace,
Surgeon,
Morten Harket,
Das Ding,
cv313,
Crispian St. Peters,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lindisfarne,
The Index,
Lee Hazlewood,
Vainqueur,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Axelrod,
Lalann,
Soft Machine,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.