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 Tanzania and from Halifax.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Radiopuhelimet 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pylon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Radio Birdman,
Hashim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cowsills,
Main Source,
The Blackbyrds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Talk Talk,
Saccharine Trust,
Joy Division,
Lower 48,
Jeff Mills,
Eli Mardock,
JFA,
Second Layer,
Infiniti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bill Near,
The Doors,
The Fuzztones,
Make Up,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fela Kuti,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Martian,
The Fall,
The Skatalites,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tom Boy,
Gang Starr,
Black Pus,
Gil Scott Heron,
Toni Rubio,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Youth Brigade,
Arab on Radar,
CMW,
Deakin,
Dead Boys,
Wings,
Sun City Girls,
Iggy Pop,
Hardrive,
Kaleidoscope,
Frankie Knuckles,
Index,
The Raincoats,
Absolute Body Control,
Shuggie Otis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wally Richardson,
Groovy Waters,
Banda Bassotti,
Faraquet,
Moebius,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sound Behaviour,
Suburban Knight,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.