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 Bhutan and from New York.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 X-101 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Red Krayola,
Althea and Donna,
Kas Product,
Average White Band,
Glenn Branca,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
The Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lalann,
Neil Young,
Stereo Dub,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Black Dice,
The Sound,
Aswad,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Interpol,
The New Christs,
Wally Richardson,
Darondo,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Sherman,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Last Poets,
Duran Duran,
Khruangbin,
H. Thieme,
Marvin Gaye,
Yaz,
Q65,
Scrapy,
Pulsallama,
The Saints,
The Gap Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pantytec,
Josef K,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Moon,
Radiohead,
Sixth Finger,
The Electric Prunes,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Infiniti,
FM Einheit,
Skaos,
Pylon,
Bush Tetras,
The Remains,
Fluxion,
Rod Modell,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Franke,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.