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 El Salvador and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Birthday Party to the electroclash 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
U.S. Maple,
Nirvana,
Joe Finger,
Marshall Jefferson,
Groovy Waters,
Ten City,
Donny Hathaway,
Glenn Branca,
Model 500,
Gong,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sonics,
R.M.O.,
The Smoke,
Livin' Joy,
T. Rex,
Talk Talk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Certain Ratio,
X-101,
CMW,
Unwound,
The Selecter,
The American Breed,
Matthew Halsall,
Little Man,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Fire Engines,
Hardrive,
The Five Americans,
John Cale,
Moebius,
Derrick Morgan,
Nas,
Mantronix,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
JFA,
Visage,
Joy Division,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sonny Sharrock,
L. Decosne,
Altered Images,
The New Christs,
Chris & Cosey,
Crash Course in Science,
the Swans,
Arab on Radar,
Black Moon,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Byrd,
Slave,
Warsaw,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Stooges,
Ponytail,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blackbyrds,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.