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 Guatemala and from Lagos.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Gang Starr to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Andrew Hill,
Junior Murvin,
The Gladiators,
Bauhaus,
Chris Corsano,
Vainqueur,
Terrestrial Tones,
Drive Like Jehu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun City Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Doors,
Bobbi Humphrey,
PIL,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Au Pairs,
Cymande,
Khruangbin,
Metal Thangz,
Tomorrow,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Saints,
Sonic Youth,
Bluetip,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yellowson,
Ultimate Spinach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Goldenarms,
Inner City,
Cameo,
X-102,
ABC,
Q65,
Bang On A Can,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Blackbyrds,
Erasure,
Fluxion,
Joyce Sims,
Talk Talk,
The Mummies,
Unrelated Segments,
Magma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
World's Most,
The J.B.'s,
Shoche,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Babytalk,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.