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 Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Mark Hollis to the electroclash 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
LL Cool J,
Brand Nubian,
The Fire Engines,
Stiv Bators,
CMW,
JFA,
Iggy Pop,
The Cure,
the Slits,
The Golliwogs,
Blossom Toes,
Mr. Review,
The New Christs,
Brass Construction,
Mo-Dettes,
Joe Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sarah Menescal,
E-Dancer,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quantec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
KRS-One,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pulsallama,
The Neon Judgement,
the Bar-Kays,
Skaos,
The Beau Brummels,
Althea and Donna,
Rod Modell,
The Standells,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pussy Galore,
Bronski Beat,
Fatback Band,
The Dead C,
the Sonics,
Simply Red,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Little Man,
Sister Nancy,
Silicon Teens,
the Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
The Sonics,
The American Breed,
Camberwell Now,
Rekid,
Quando Quango,
Matthew Halsall,
A Certain Ratio,
The Modern Lovers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.