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 Paraguay and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 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 The Barracudas to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
PIL,
Jawbox,
Trumans Water,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shuggie Otis,
Idris Muhammad,
Warren Ellis,
The Associates,
UT,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dirtbombs,
The Monks,
The Tremeloes,
The Searchers,
Lucky Dragons,
Urselle,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Remains,
Bill Near,
Leonard Cohen,
Albert Ayler,
Masters at Work,
Half Japanese,
Chris & Cosey,
Barbara Tucker,
Nas,
Cymande,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Delta 5,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bill Wells,
The Selecter,
Royal Trux,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Soft Cell,
Brick,
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed,
Harpers Bizarre,
Delon & Dalcan,
Supertramp,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Angels of Light,
Radiopuhelimet,
Panda Bear,
Ten City,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Raincoats,
Michelle Simonal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Foxx,
Scion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fad Gadget,
The Leaves,
Colin Newman,
Glambeats Corp.,
Al Stewart,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.