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 Turkey and from Glasgow.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Excepter,
Lakeside,
Funky Four + One,
The Invisible,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eric Copeland,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jawbox,
Pole,
Average White Band,
the Soft Cell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Althea and Donna,
Unwound,
Andrew Hill,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Germs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Intrusion,
Second Layer,
The Angels of Light,
June of 44,
Fear,
Country Teasers,
Duran Duran,
Pierre Henry,
Gang of Four,
This Heat,
Sight & Sound,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Pop Group,
Desert Stars,
Nils Olav,
The Sound,
MDC,
The Mojo Men,
X-102,
Electric Prunes,
Colin Newman,
The Seeds,
Kenny Larkin,
Barry Ungar,
Scientists,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fat Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Barracudas,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.