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 Bulgaria and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the techno 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
The Velvet Underground,
Main Source,
Isaac Hayes,
Jandek,
Pere Ubu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Boredoms,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tom Boy,
Hoover,
Index,
FM Einheit,
Byron Stingily,
Gang Gang Dance,
Roxy Music,
Basic Channel,
AZ,
Eurythmics,
kango's stein massive,
Joy Division,
Scott Walker,
John Foxx,
Banda Bassotti,
Rosa Yemen,
X-102,
Lucky Dragons,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alton Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Tubeway Army,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Susan Cadogan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Panda Bear,
Kas Product,
Clear Light,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lyres,
MDC,
The Doors,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Whodini,
Spandau Ballet,
the Bar-Kays,
Average White Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Letta Mbulu,
The Electric Prunes,
Deepchord,
Agent Orange,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.