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 Ireland and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
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 organ 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 Cheater Slicks to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sonic Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Busters,
Brand Nubian,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Moleskins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
Pagans,
T. Rex,
Alice Coltrane,
MC5,
Roy Ayers,
The Litter,
KRS-One,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
L. Decosne,
Darondo,
Minny Pops,
Rekid,
Black Sheep,
Sparks,
The Victims,
Mission of Burma,
The Zeros,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Tremeloes,
Isaac Hayes,
Roxette,
Flash Fearless,
Y Pants,
Mo-Dettes,
June Days,
Easy Going,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Delon & Dalcan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Television Personalities,
The American Breed,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David Bowie,
Frankie Knuckles,
10cc,
AZ,
Carl Craig,
The Doors,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lyres,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Pop Group,
Fugazi,
Warsaw,
The Five Americans,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.