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 Tunisia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gastr Del Sol to the rock 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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
June Days,
Josef K,
Duran Duran,
Sun City Girls,
Visage,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flash Fearless,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mary Jane Girls,
Trumans Water,
Monks,
Hashim,
Brand Nubian,
Lee Hazlewood,
Spandau Ballet,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Beau Brummels,
Accadde A,
The Barracudas,
Mark Hollis,
Sandy B,
Juan Atkins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tommy Roe,
Bob Dylan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ten City,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dual Sessions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sarah Menescal,
Derrick May,
Agitation Free,
Aswad,
Y Pants,
Sight & Sound,
Nico,
Negative Approach,
The Wake,
Marine Girls,
Barclay James Harvest,
Drexciya,
Smog,
Magma,
Harmonia,
Hot Snakes,
The Doobie Brothers,
DJ Style,
Albert Ayler,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Talk Talk,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.