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 Finland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the rap 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Mad Mike,
Rufus Thomas,
Hasil Adkins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cal Tjader,
Absolute Body Control,
Boredoms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brass Construction,
Easy Going,
Metal Thangz,
Eli Mardock,
Sugar Minott,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Martian,
The Evens,
Kool Moe Dee,
Babytalk,
Pet Shop Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Human League,
Newcleus,
Avey Tare,
The Dirtbombs,
the Normal,
Freddie Wadling,
Kas Product,
KRS-One,
Crooked Eye,
Echospace,
Radiopuhelimet,
Roy Ayers,
Ice-T,
The United States of America,
Rod Modell,
The Blackbyrds,
MDC,
The Shadows of Knight,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gun Club,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Guru Guru,
Shuggie Otis,
Outsiders,
Cybotron,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sällskapet,
Nik Kershaw,
Delta 5,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultra Naté,
Roxy Music,
Cecil Taylor,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Buckinghams,
a-ha,
Half Japanese,
The Fire Engines,
Soft Machine,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.