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 Albania and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marc Almond to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Associates,
Man Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Suicide,
Blake Baxter,
Archie Shepp,
Minutemen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sparks,
Bad Manners,
Danielle Patucci,
The Slackers,
a-ha,
Tom Boy,
La Düsseldorf,
Guru Guru,
Shoche,
T. Rex,
Accadde A,
Q65,
Goldenarms,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sarah Menescal,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bluetip,
the Normal,
MDC,
Toni Rubio,
Aural Exciters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hoover,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Wally Richardson,
Intrusion,
David McCallum,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joensuu 1685,
Gregory Isaacs,
Outsiders,
Procol Harum,
L. Decosne,
Zapp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eve St. Jones,
Minny Pops,
Wire,
Rakim,
Swans,
Judy Mowatt,
F. McDonald,
Marvin Gaye,
Kas Product,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Holt,
Massinfluence,
Robert Wyatt,
Deakin,
Ponytail,
The Birthday Party,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.