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 Ethiopia and from Manchester.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ 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 Massinfluence to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Faraquet,
Magma,
Reagan Youth,
MDC,
Junior Murvin,
Yellowson,
Moss Icon,
Anakelly,
One Last Wish,
Bush Tetras,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Grass Roots,
Rakim,
Dave Gahan,
Los Fastidios,
The New Christs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
U.S. Maple,
Erasure,
Bobby Byrd,
Ohio Players,
E-Dancer,
Supertramp,
Maleditus Sound,
Echospace,
Oblivians,
The Searchers,
Whodini,
Tom Boy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moebius,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare,
Zapp,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gong,
June Days,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joyce Sims,
Shoche,
Ornette Coleman,
Hoover,
Sarah Menescal,
X-101,
Half Japanese,
Agitation Free,
Y Pants,
Hardrive,
Q and Not U,
Juan Atkins,
Funkadelic,
Quadrant,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oneida,
Chris Corsano,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Swans,
Model 500,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.