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 Argentina and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fela Kuti to the dance 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Altered Images,
Buzzcocks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
AZ,
The Fall,
The Dave Clark Five,
Metal Thangz,
Shuggie Otis,
The Dead C,
Kerri Chandler,
Massinfluence,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Country Teasers,
Livin' Joy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Babytalk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flipper,
Liliput,
Second Layer,
Cecil Taylor,
Sound Behaviour,
Harpers Bizarre,
John Coltrane,
Public Enemy,
Yellowson,
Ponytail,
John Cale,
World's Most,
Fat Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Warren Ellis,
Soul II Soul,
Niagra,
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Halsall,
Lower 48,
Skarface,
The Angels of Light,
The Pretty Things,
Scion,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Model 500,
Youth Brigade,
Sugar Minott,
Absolute Body Control,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Donald Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reagan Youth,
Harmonia,
Monolake,
Robert Görl,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bauhaus,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.