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 Chile and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin 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 Idris Muhammad to the grunge 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantytec,
Alison Limerick,
L. Decosne,
Rotary Connection,
Spoonie Gee,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Görl,
Chris Corsano,
James White and The Blacks,
Joe Finger,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DJ Style,
Ponytail,
Chrome,
Trumans Water,
Kaleidoscope,
The Slackers,
Gong,
Cecil Taylor,
The Misunderstood,
Intrusion,
Jeru the Damaja,
Youth Brigade,
Sexual Harrassment,
Schoolly D,
Terry Callier,
The Buckinghams,
The Selecter,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalann,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pagans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Tremeloes,
Sam Rivers,
Harmonia,
Scan 7,
Oneida,
The Blackbyrds,
The Raincoats,
Deadbeat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Franke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Desert Stars,
Circle Jerks,
Black Flag,
Negative Approach,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lindisfarne,
The Barracudas,
Simply Red,
Second Layer,
The Cowsills,
The Sound,
Mo-Dettes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.