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 Indonesia and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Glenn Branca to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Half Japanese,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Robert Görl,
Soft Cell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Niagra,
Smog,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
B.T. Express,
Stetsasonic,
Dead Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Yusef Lateef,
Duran Duran,
The Modern Lovers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Mojo Men,
Joey Negro,
Scan 7,
Franke,
Dave Gahan,
Agitation Free,
Gang of Four,
The Last Poets,
the Swans,
Dawn Penn,
Curtis Mayfield,
Suburban Knight,
Aural Exciters,
Con Funk Shun,
Arthur Verocai,
Animal Collective,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Wake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Cale,
PIL,
Kerri Chandler,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Barclay James Harvest,
Unrelated Segments,
Fear,
Soul II Soul,
Terrestrial Tones,
F. McDonald,
The Cowsills,
Cymande,
Television,
Minor Threat,
Silicon Teens,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skaos,
New Age Steppers,
Flash Fearless,
Oblivians,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.