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 Botswana and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alphaville to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Zapp,
Freddie Wadling,
L. Decosne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
U.S. Maple,
the Germs,
The Dead C,
The J.B.'s,
Black Flag,
The Cowsills,
One Last Wish,
The Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacob Miller,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crime,
The Modern Lovers,
Pulsallama,
Rites of Spring,
The Mojo Men,
The Cure,
The Misunderstood,
Porter Ricks,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Christie,
Gang of Four,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Donny Hathaway,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Sneak,
Eddi Front,
Peter & Gordon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Real Kids,
Tropical Tobacco,
Moby Grape,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Minny Pops,
Brothers Johnson,
Roy Ayers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bob Dylan,
LL Cool J,
The Angels of Light,
Isaac Hayes,
Crash Course in Science,
Main Source,
These Immortal Souls,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fela Kuti,
Hoover,
Delta 5,
Con Funk Shun,
Gabor Szabo,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.