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 Nicaragua and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ 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 Matthew Halsall to the jazz 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
The Misunderstood,
The Modern Lovers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radiopuhelimet,
These Immortal Souls,
Kurtis Blow,
Chris & Cosey,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sound Behaviour,
The Real Kids,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Hood,
Trumans Water,
One Last Wish,
Grauzone,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Khruangbin,
Electric Prunes,
CMW,
Zapp,
Jandek,
Symarip,
Gang Green,
Pylon,
Mission of Burma,
Marmalade,
Prince Buster,
Vladislav Delay,
Funkadelic,
Rotary Connection,
H. Thieme,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Doors,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Bananas,
Guru Guru,
Deepchord,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Frankie Knuckles,
Oblivians,
Eve St. Jones,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Angry Samoans,
Danielle Patucci,
Eric Copeland,
T.S.O.L.,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fugazi,
Aloha Tigers,
The Happenings,
The Dirtbombs,
The Names,
Pole,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.