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 Jamaica and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
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 chamberlin 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 Rod Modell to the grunge 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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sound Behaviour,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Graham Central Station,
Youth Brigade,
Henry Cow,
Crooked Eye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick Morgan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cymande,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ituana,
Spoonie Gee,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
MC5,
Intrusion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joe Smooth,
Depeche Mode,
Grauzone,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Soft Cell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yaz,
John Lydon,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cure,
This Heat,
Unrelated Segments,
John Foxx,
The Offenders,
Arthur Verocai,
Public Enemy,
Joensuu 1685,
8 Eyed Spy,
Amazonics,
Deakin,
The Cramps,
Gang Starr,
L. Decosne,
The Gap Band,
Moebius,
Barbara Tucker,
The Names,
the Association,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mummies,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Patti Smith,
the Soft Cell,
R.M.O.,
Au Pairs,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.