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 Iran and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alice Coltrane to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Tres Demented,
Ossler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Excepter,
DJ Sneak,
Jacques Brel,
Suburban Knight,
JFA,
Warren Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wolf Eyes,
Cymande,
The Gun Club,
Subhumans,
Marc Almond,
Pole,
The Music Machine,
Brass Construction,
The Names,
The New Christs,
Hoover,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gong,
Mr. Review,
Faraquet,
Motorama,
Byron Stingily,
Kayak,
Television Personalities,
Terry Callier,
Scrapy,
Dark Day,
Joe Smooth,
The Selecter,
Skaos,
R.M.O.,
The Cure,
Cecil Taylor,
Mission of Burma,
Little Man,
Skarface,
The Gories,
Lower 48,
Sarah Menescal,
Mantronix,
The Walker Brothers,
Brick,
The Searchers,
Minutemen,
PIL,
Livin' Joy,
Ronnie Foster,
Procol Harum,
The Gladiators,
Jacob Miller,
The Leaves,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.