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 Ghana 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Wire to the disco 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
the Swans,
Rekid,
Lungfish,
Niagra,
Blancmange,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alice Coltrane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Al Stewart,
The Doors,
Connie Case,
The Kinks,
Nirvana,
Cecil Taylor,
the Bar-Kays,
Derrick May,
PIL,
Vladislav Delay,
Alphaville,
Bad Manners,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stiv Bators,
The Pop Group,
the Association,
kango's stein massive,
Metal Thangz,
The Divine Comedy,
Susan Cadogan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pere Ubu,
Ponytail,
Wire,
The Stooges,
Peter and Kerry,
Deakin,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Alarm Clocks,
Blossom Toes,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Copeland,
Gregory Isaacs,
Zapp,
Sexual Harrassment,
Liliput,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Human League,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
B.T. Express,
Fugazi,
The New Christs,
D'Angelo,
Bill Wells,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Offenders,
China Crisis,
Mandrill,
The Monochrome Set,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.