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 Liechtenstein and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Metal Thangz 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Busters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yellowson,
Slick Rick,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tom Boy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
Pulsallama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
June of 44,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Neon Judgement,
Eric Dolphy,
Lucky Dragons,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brass Construction,
Popol Vuh,
Boz Scaggs,
The Blues Magoos,
MC5,
Suburban Knight,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
kango's stein massive,
Clear Light,
The Zeros,
Freddie Wadling,
Grauzone,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Wells,
Darondo,
Cymande,
ABC,
Juan Atkins,
Interpol,
Sister Nancy,
Joey Negro,
Maleditus Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Sherman,
Roger Hodgson,
Marmalade,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Skatalites,
Leonard Cohen,
Funky Four + One,
The Black Dice,
Byron Stingily,
Black Moon,
Donny Hathaway,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Axelrod,
Second Layer,
Marine Girls,
The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters.
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.