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 Comoros and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 Jawbox to the grunge 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Babytalk,
Sparks,
The Residents,
UT,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lyres,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cameo,
Interpol,
Skriet,
Easy Going,
Goldenarms,
The Busters,
Mark Hollis,
Sex Pistols,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
U.S. Maple,
Gong,
Motorama,
Arthur Verocai,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Real Kids,
Index,
Ultra Naté,
Sixth Finger,
Todd Terry,
The Stooges,
Lou Christie,
The Divine Comedy,
Cluster,
Dead Boys,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Desert Stars,
Quando Quango,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hasil Adkins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flash Fearless,
DNA,
Peter and Kerry,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Q and Not U,
Marc Almond,
Funky Four + One,
Chris Corsano,
Supertramp,
Japan,
Glenn Branca,
The Knickerbockers,
The Barracudas,
K-Klass,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marcia Griffiths,
Vainqueur,
Howard Jones,
Black Pus,
Flipper,
Drexciya,
Lindisfarne,
Johnny Clarke,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.