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 Uruguay and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 theremin 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 Scientists to the jazz 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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?
Groovy Waters,
Moby Grape,
Altered Images,
Peter & Gordon,
Outsiders,
Schoolly D,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gong,
Saccharine Trust,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mandrill,
Bobby Womack,
The Skatalites,
Kas Product,
DJ Style,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Josef K,
Piero Umiliani,
Quantec,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Suicide,
Dead Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nas,
the Germs,
Mark Hollis,
David Bowie,
a-ha,
Chris Corsano,
Jacob Miller,
Bob Dylan,
Warren Ellis,
Joy Division,
Grey Daturas,
Soft Machine,
Bobby Sherman,
New Age Steppers,
Technova,
The Tremeloes,
The Angels of Light,
Scion,
Wasted Youth,
Qualms,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Litter,
Deepchord,
Sound Behaviour,
MDC,
Bobby Byrd,
AZ,
John Holt,
The Gap Band,
The United States of America,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pantaleimon,
Theoretical Girls,
Animal Collective,
Circle Jerks,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.