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 Samoa and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Symarip to the jazz 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Pierre Henry,
Wolf Eyes,
Procol Harum,
Japan,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Vogues,
Eli Mardock,
cv313,
Marine Girls,
Carl Craig,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pylon,
Funkadelic,
Monks,
Minor Threat,
The Divine Comedy,
Skaos,
Mars,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
Underground Resistance,
The Toasters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
New York Dolls,
Von Mondo,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ohio Players,
Roxette,
Yusef Lateef,
Nils Olav,
Dual Sessions,
The Velvet Underground,
Barbara Tucker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Severed Heads,
Subhumans,
D'Angelo,
MDC,
Kerri Chandler,
Anakelly,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mummies,
Siglo XX,
Clear Light,
Jeff Lynne,
Slave,
Scientists,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wasted Youth,
Alphaville,
The Blackbyrds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Simply Red,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sound Behaviour,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.