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 Monaco 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba 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 This Heat to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach 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 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 It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Cal Tjader,
Sound Behaviour,
Mad Mike,
Black Flag,
Colin Newman,
ABBA,
Second Layer,
Sonic Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
The Busters,
the Association,
Sixth Finger,
Television Personalities,
Main Source,
the Slits,
Subhumans,
Accadde A,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeff Lynne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nirvana,
Marcia Griffiths,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Style,
Gichy Dan,
Eric Dolphy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
Nas,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ultra Naté,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sällskapet,
Circle Jerks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ludus,
The Wake,
Das Ding,
The Motions,
Carl Craig,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cluster,
Blancmange,
Ken Boothe,
The Cramps,
Patti Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Drexciya,
The Vogues,
Eli Mardock,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rosa Yemen,
Rhythm & Sound,
Basic Channel,
The Electric Prunes,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.