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 Micronesia and from Copenhagen.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Andrew Hill to the rap 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Charles Mingus,
Model 500,
Eli Mardock,
Monolake,
Pierre Henry,
Banda Bassotti,
Fad Gadget,
Suicide,
Cybotron,
Agent Orange,
Porter Ricks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Metal Thangz,
Ash Ra Tempel,
ABBA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Schoolly D,
DJ Style,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
These Immortal Souls,
AZ,
The Beau Brummels,
Nick Fraelich,
Theoretical Girls,
The Real Kids,
Half Japanese,
The Pretty Things,
Intrusion,
Interpol,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Subhumans,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Near,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
R.M.O.,
Excepter,
Janne Schatter,
Davy DMX,
JFA,
Delta 5,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sex Pistols,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Minutemen,
Amon Düül,
The Stooges,
Masters at Work,
The Motions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric Copeland,
Cheater Slicks,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Flag,
Joyce Sims,
The Techniques,
Radio Birdman,
Reuben Wilson,
The Angels of Light,
Brick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.