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 Germany and from Edmonton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the techno 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Marvin Gaye,
Section 25,
Echospace,
Qualms,
Stockholm Monsters,
Man Parrish,
The Flesh Eaters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Model 500,
Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
L. Decosne,
Crooked Eye,
Nils Olav,
Derrick Morgan,
Fatback Band,
Altered Images,
June Days,
Junior Murvin,
The Seeds,
Gang of Four,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Trojans,
Sarah Menescal,
Rhythm & Sound,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Durutti Column,
Underground Resistance,
Warren Ellis,
Smog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Bar-Kays,
Jawbox,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Amon Düül II,
Siglo XX,
Bobbi Humphrey,
R.M.O.,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Masters at Work,
Derrick May,
The Tremeloes,
the Normal,
David McCallum,
The Smiths,
Dave Gahan,
Little Man,
Dual Sessions,
Camberwell Now,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jerry's Kids,
James White and The Blacks,
Marc Almond,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scientists,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.