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 Slovakia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pagans to the disco 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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Marmalade,
Byron Stingily,
Nico,
The Gap Band,
The Human League,
Fort Wilson Riot,
H. Thieme,
Idris Muhammad,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sugar Minott,
Rod Modell,
Amon Düül,
The Sonics,
Aural Exciters,
Sandy B,
Au Pairs,
Sister Nancy,
Ultimate Spinach,
James White and The Blacks,
Warsaw,
Little Man,
John Holt,
Buzzcocks,
Quadrant,
John Cale,
Freddie Wadling,
The Golliwogs,
Suicide,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gong,
Cybotron,
Dual Sessions,
Ken Boothe,
Symarip,
Swans,
Livin' Joy,
Joey Negro,
Severed Heads,
Soul Sonic Force,
Althea and Donna,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sixth Finger,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Maleditus Sound,
Vainqueur,
Black Flag,
John Lydon,
X-101,
Jacob Miller,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tim Buckley,
Donald Byrd,
Tom Boy,
Aswad,
Quantec,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mr. Review,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.