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 Solomon Islands and from Manila.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Barracudas to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Livin' Joy,
Kurtis Blow,
Gong,
Drexciya,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sex Pistols,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eric Copeland,
Underground Resistance,
Joe Smooth,
Slave,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lou Christie,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fatback Band,
Eddi Front,
June Days,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Babytalk,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q and Not U,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Excepter,
John Cale,
LL Cool J,
Marc Almond,
PIL,
Bauhaus,
kango's stein massive,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Teasers,
The Zeros,
John Coltrane,
Main Source,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Unwound,
The Martian,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra,
Harmonia,
Matthew Bourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Prince Buster,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mandrill,
Thompson Twins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Television Personalities,
These Immortal Souls,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Shadows of Knight,
Max Romeo,
Bad Manners,
Cecil Taylor,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.