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 Venezuela and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
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 mellotron 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 Liliput to the rock 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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 Star Department,
Unrelated Segments,
Joe Smooth,
The Smoke,
Cybotron,
Little Man,
The Black Dice,
Dorothy Ashby,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
Trumans Water,
Motorama,
Goldenarms,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agent Orange,
The Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Starr,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter and Kerry,
Monks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eden Ahbez,
Dave Gahan,
Barbara Tucker,
Camberwell Now,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pere Ubu,
Outsiders,
Television,
One Last Wish,
Maurizio,
Susan Cadogan,
Subhumans,
JFA,
World's Most,
Iggy Pop,
Interpol,
Blossom Toes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sonic Youth,
Stiv Bators,
New Age Steppers,
Lakeside,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Knickerbockers,
Godley & Creme,
Altered Images,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Black Bananas,
Bill Near,
Terrestrial Tones,
Warren Ellis,
Siglo XX,
The Motions,
LL Cool J,
The Velvet Underground,
Parry Music,
David McCallum,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.