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 Saudi Arabia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 Swans to the grime 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Bluetip,
Monolake,
Minnie Riperton,
Inner City,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minutemen,
Bauhaus,
Hasil Adkins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Mills,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Frankie Knuckles,
Malaria!,
Reuben Wilson,
Rod Modell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Groovy Waters,
Laurel Aitken,
Rapeman,
The Blackbyrds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Smooth,
Second Layer,
Suburban Knight,
Donald Byrd,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pussy Galore,
ABBA,
Colin Newman,
Blossom Toes,
FM Einheit,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Model 500,
the Slits,
Public Enemy,
Eden Ahbez,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unrelated Segments,
Carl Craig,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
U.S. Maple,
Con Funk Shun,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wally Richardson,
Icehouse,
KRS-One,
The Litter,
F. McDonald,
Unwound,
Cymande,
Ice-T,
Sun Ra,
Morten Harket,
Nils Olav,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.