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 Qatar and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Silicon Teens to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
The Cure,
Surgeon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eve St. Jones,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Masters at Work,
The Modern Lovers,
Derrick May,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soft Machine,
Skriet,
Oblivians,
Magazine,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fire Engines,
John Holt,
Jeff Mills,
The Divine Comedy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Girls At Our Best!,
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Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rites of Spring,
Flash Fearless,
H. Thieme,
Sam Rivers,
Rekid,
Lucky Dragons,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jawbox,
Desert Stars,
Swell Maps,
Mr. Review,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
One Last Wish,
Marine Girls,
Theoretical Girls,
The Gap Band,
Agent Orange,
The Electric Prunes,
Schoolly D,
Qualms,
kango's stein massive,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Television Personalities,
LL Cool J,
Henry Cow,
Nico,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Hashim,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Connie Case,
Nils Olav,
Kas Product,
Nick Fraelich,
Shuggie Otis,
Skaos,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Maleditus Sound,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.