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 Sweden and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Tubeway Army to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 David Bowie. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
Sun Ra,
Roxette,
The Zeros,
The Dead C,
The Victims,
The Cowsills,
Eli Mardock,
Yazoo,
Swell Maps,
Scott Walker,
The Blackbyrds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mandrill,
Adolescents,
Harmonia,
Con Funk Shun,
Patti Smith,
Colin Newman,
Rhythm & Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Green,
Monks,
Kas Product,
X-Ray Spex,
Country Teasers,
Japan,
Bluetip,
The Velvet Underground,
Stiv Bators,
The Martian,
Half Japanese,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Certain Ratio,
the Swans,
The Standells,
The Names,
Suicide,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Hoover,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Excepter,
K-Klass,
The Index,
CMW,
Bill Near,
Aaron Thompson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Saccharine Trust,
Babytalk,
Cameo,
Bootsy Collins,
Fifty Foot Hose,
E-Dancer,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang of Four,
Oneida,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.