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 Nepal and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Theoretical Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Adolescents,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Amon Düül II,
The Remains,
H. Thieme,
Minutemen,
Swans,
X-101,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ten City,
Darondo,
Alice Coltrane,
Subhumans,
Bootsy Collins,
The Motions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
Minnie Riperton,
Stereo Dub,
Soul II Soul,
Wasted Youth,
Accadde A,
48th St. Collective,
Gastr Del Sol,
Outsiders,
Smog,
Oneida,
Jimmy McGriff,
UT,
Bobby Hutcherson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Slave,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Last Poets,
Organ,
Sun City Girls,
Kaleidoscope,
Agent Orange,
Soul Sonic Force,
Metal Thangz,
These Immortal Souls,
Lou Reed,
Bush Tetras,
Schoolly D,
Hashim,
Yazoo,
The Toasters,
the Slits,
Von Mondo,
Lyres,
Charles Mingus,
Eric Dolphy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tres Demented,
Joey Negro,
DJ Style,
Letta Mbulu,
the Swans,
The Pretty Things,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.