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 Ivory Coast and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mantronix to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Arcadia,
Sonic Youth,
The Golliwogs,
Delta 5,
Minutemen,
Todd Terry,
The Fall,
The Residents,
Tom Boy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boredoms,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jandek,
Accadde A,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fat Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Moebius,
48th St. Collective,
Icehouse,
Scott Walker,
The Evens,
Stetsasonic,
Little Man,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cecil Taylor,
Skriet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeff Mills,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
JFA,
Shuggie Otis,
Fugazi,
DNA,
The Five Americans,
The Angels of Light,
Pole,
The J.B.'s,
Crime,
Roy Ayers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Basic Channel,
New Order,
Urselle,
the Soft Cell,
Hardrive,
Joensuu 1685,
DJ Style,
Chris Corsano,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thompson Twins,
Mantronix,
The Durutti Column,
Joyce Sims,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Goldenarms,
Gerry Rafferty,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.