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 Korea North and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 ABBA to the electroclash 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Dual Sessions,
Kaleidoscope,
Television Personalities,
Shuggie Otis,
Soulsonic Force,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang Green,
Sonic Youth,
MC5,
Curtis Mayfield,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Freddie Wadling,
H. Thieme,
The Smiths,
Prince Buster,
Pagans,
June Days,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Robert Wyatt,
cv313,
The Mojo Men,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Byron Stingily,
The Victims,
Maurizio,
Anthony Braxton,
Buzzcocks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Andrew Hill,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sixth Finger,
Little Man,
The Knickerbockers,
The Walker Brothers,
The Motions,
Josef K,
Janne Schatter,
The J.B.'s,
R.M.O.,
Eden Ahbez,
OOIOO,
Accadde A,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
Absolute Body Control,
John Coltrane,
Avey Tare,
Mars,
Royal Trux,
Monks,
Anakelly,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grey Daturas,
Davy DMX,
David Bowie,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rites of Spring,
E-Dancer,
Aural Exciters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.