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 Guinea and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tommy Roe to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Basic Channel,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Maleditus Sound,
Average White Band,
Colin Newman,
The Gladiators,
The Mojo Men,
Yaz,
Bad Manners,
The Sound,
June of 44,
Black Bananas,
The Young Rascals,
JFA,
Chris & Cosey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Symarip,
U.S. Maple,
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Human League,
The Seeds,
The Fuzztones,
Darondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gang Starr,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Zero Boys,
The Dead C,
Cal Tjader,
Simply Red,
Skaos,
The Star Department,
Ohio Players,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mandrill,
Letta Mbulu,
Negative Approach,
Sixth Finger,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Flag,
Altered Images,
The Happenings,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Das Ding,
Lucky Dragons,
Moss Icon,
Y Pants,
John Holt,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Lalann,
Loose Ends,
Sonic Youth,
Flipper,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.