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 New Zealand and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jacques Brel to the jazz 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Banda Bassotti,
One Last Wish,
Negative Approach,
Joey Negro,
Pere Ubu,
48th St. Collective,
Marine Girls,
The Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
The Slits,
Rosa Yemen,
Supertramp,
The Trojans,
Underground Resistance,
Sparks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Vladislav Delay,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sugar Minott,
The Doors,
Derrick May,
Visage,
The New Christs,
Desert Stars,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Goldenarms,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terry Callier,
Ash Ra Tempel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nils Olav,
This Heat,
The Moleskins,
The Offenders,
Arcadia,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Suicide,
Eddi Front,
Joy Division,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ultravox,
CMW,
Dual Sessions,
The Star Department,
New York Dolls,
Ronan,
Roxette,
Kenny Larkin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Duran Duran,
Fluxion,
Fugazi,
Howard Jones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Juan Atkins,
Harpers Bizarre,
Connie Case,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sun City Girls,
The Gap Band,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.