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 Venezuela and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Von Mondo to the rock 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Technova,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Liliput,
Moss Icon,
Wasted Youth,
FM Einheit,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eli Mardock,
Sällskapet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Guru Guru,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Foxx,
Idris Muhammad,
Joe Smooth,
AZ,
Rosa Yemen,
Moebius,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Donny Hathaway,
Organ,
Erasure,
Ornette Coleman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Fortunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
U.S. Maple,
Mo-Dettes,
Mary Jane Girls,
PIL,
Lou Reed,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Von Mondo,
The Velvet Underground,
ABC,
Eric Dolphy,
Josef K,
Faust,
The Seeds,
Todd Rundgren,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Altered Images,
Public Enemy,
One Last Wish,
Blake Baxter,
Soft Machine,
Average White Band,
Franke,
Piero Umiliani,
Rotary Connection,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
James White and The Blacks,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Fraelich,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.