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 Bangladesh and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bill Near to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Amazonics,
Swell Maps,
Nico,
Idris Muhammad,
The Vogues,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grandmaster Flash,
Chrome,
Wasted Youth,
Talk Talk,
In Retrospect,
Half Japanese,
Slick Rick,
Marine Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Soft Cell,
Electric Prunes,
The Standells,
Niagra,
The Black Dice,
The Human League,
Main Source,
Hashim,
Sun City Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Inner City,
Buzzcocks,
Agitation Free,
Angry Samoans,
the Germs,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Evens,
The Leaves,
Lalo Schifrin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Donald Byrd,
Laurel Aitken,
Steve Hackett,
Carl Craig,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ken Boothe,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oneida,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Knickerbockers,
Rufus Thomas,
X-102,
Procol Harum,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eric Copeland,
The Beau Brummels,
Eric Dolphy,
Average White Band,
Jawbox,
The Stooges,
MC5,
Whodini,
Bang On A Can,
Minutemen,
Sexual Harrassment,
Davy DMX,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.