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 Latvia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Liaisons Dangereuses 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Soul II Soul,
Anakelly,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cure,
Yusef Lateef,
Heaven 17,
Nik Kershaw,
Drive Like Jehu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
David Axelrod,
The Sonics,
The Slackers,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Mills,
R.M.O.,
La Düsseldorf,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Delon & Dalcan,
The J.B.'s,
Sandy B,
The Grass Roots,
Los Fastidios,
Lower 48,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gichy Dan,
The New Christs,
The Wake,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pole,
The Pop Group,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Stooges,
The Five Americans,
Jerry's Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cybotron,
Delta 5,
Radio Birdman,
The Move,
Jesper Dahlback,
Reagan Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Byrd,
Japan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
EPMD,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dead Boys,
Neu!,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.