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 Argentina and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Ken Boothe to the rap 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
UT,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick May,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
The Motions,
Eric Dolphy,
Eli Mardock,
Fela Kuti,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Selecter,
Siglo XX,
Joy Division,
Japan,
10cc,
David McCallum,
Eddi Front,
Marc Almond,
Jesper Dahlback,
Underground Resistance,
Rufus Thomas,
Swans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Angels of Light,
Saccharine Trust,
Hasil Adkins,
Unwound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fad Gadget,
R.M.O.,
Thompson Twins,
John Coltrane,
Yellowson,
Warsaw,
Rod Modell,
Grey Daturas,
The Blackbyrds,
Anthony Braxton,
Dave Gahan,
Nas,
The Last Poets,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Schoolly D,
the Slits,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Görl,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
X-101,
The Stooges,
the Normal,
Altered Images,
Accadde A,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bauhaus,
Amon Düül II,
The Fall,
Procol Harum,
Soft Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scientists,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.