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 Switzerland and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The J.B.'s to the disco 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Scott Walker,
The Index,
The Mojo Men,
The Associates,
Ronan,
Massinfluence,
Make Up,
Yazoo,
The Searchers,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Durutti Column,
Minor Threat,
Bill Near,
T.S.O.L.,
Man Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chris & Cosey,
Anakelly,
Liliput,
Supertramp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hasil Adkins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Q65,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Smoke,
Interpol,
Scientists,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Misunderstood,
Funky Four + One,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roxy Music,
The Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amazonics,
Boredoms,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeff Lynne,
The Motions,
The Angels of Light,
Mandrill,
Crooked Eye,
Kerrie Biddell,
Piero Umiliani,
Pagans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Black Flag,
Von Mondo,
Public Enemy,
The Zeros,
The Beau Brummels,
Oblivians,
The Black Dice,
The Cosmic Jokers,
R.M.O.,
The Monochrome Set,
Rapeman,
Barbara Tucker,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.