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 Saudi Arabia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 Sight & Sound to the rock 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Bronski Beat,
Harry Pussy,
Dual Sessions,
Hoover,
Boz Scaggs,
Shuggie Otis,
Soulsonic Force,
Nico,
Ice-T,
The Count Five,
The Cramps,
John Foxx,
The Moleskins,
Agitation Free,
Yusef Lateef,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barbara Tucker,
Ohio Players,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Doobie Brothers,
John Holt,
Danielle Patucci,
Alton Ellis,
Laurel Aitken,
Matthew Bourne,
Fear,
X-102,
Al Stewart,
Joe Smooth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeff Lynne,
Jandek,
The Dave Clark Five,
Zapp,
Royal Trux,
Average White Band,
Henry Cow,
Albert Ayler,
Moss Icon,
10cc,
Goldenarms,
New Order,
Rapeman,
LL Cool J,
Negative Approach,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Electric Prunes,
Au Pairs,
Eden Ahbez,
The Human League,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Cure,
Archie Shepp,
Prince Buster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kenny Larkin,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Angels of Light,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anthony Braxton,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.