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 Bulgaria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
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 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 Robert Palmer 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 Terry Callier to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Make Up,
Donald Byrd,
Silicon Teens,
the Slits,
Gang Green,
the Association,
Susan Cadogan,
Joey Negro,
The Black Dice,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
T.S.O.L.,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy Collins,
Suburban Knight,
John Cale,
Avey Tare,
Public Enemy,
Neu!,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Invisible,
Jacob Miller,
The Raincoats,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Neil Young,
Boz Scaggs,
David Axelrod,
Tubeway Army,
This Heat,
the Soft Cell,
Janne Schatter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ultimate Spinach,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
Dennis Brown,
the Human League,
Visage,
Nas,
Radiohead,
Blake Baxter,
Jeff Lynne,
Little Man,
Eden Ahbez,
ABC,
Qualms,
Matthew Halsall,
Ludus,
Donny Hathaway,
Barry Ungar,
Quantec,
Pussy Galore,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fuzztones,
The Leaves,
E-Dancer,
Unwound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.