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 Zambia and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 Scrapy to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
The Fugs,
The Kinks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Charles Mingus,
Jandek,
Popol Vuh,
Fatback Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
John Foxx,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Surgeon,
Alton Ellis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Davy DMX,
Juan Atkins,
the Sonics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
R.M.O.,
Malaria!,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Image Ltd.,
Liliput,
The Move,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marvin Gaye,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Boredoms,
The Skatalites,
Neu!,
Bootsy Collins,
Loose Ends,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Smog,
Tommy Roe,
The Fuzztones,
Stereo Dub,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Supertramp,
Agitation Free,
The Techniques,
Quantec,
F. McDonald,
Ituana,
Mission of Burma,
Joy Division,
Ultravox,
Visage,
Dawn Penn,
Black Moon,
Warsaw,
Monolake,
Black Flag,
The Moody Blues,
Iggy Pop,
Brick,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gun Club,
Nation of Ulysses,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.