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 Kenya and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
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 güiro 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 Main Source to the rock 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Terrestrial Tones,
Morten Harket,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lakeside,
Bootsy Collins,
Rakim,
CMW,
Barrington Levy,
Buzzcocks,
the Soft Cell,
Pantytec,
Unrelated Segments,
Graham Central Station,
Boogie Down Productions,
Make Up,
Monks,
Amon Düül II,
Tears for Fears,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Matthew Halsall,
Khruangbin,
Man Parrish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Inner City,
Mary Jane Girls,
The United States of America,
Cabaret Voltaire,
China Crisis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Judy Mowatt,
Cal Tjader,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minnie Riperton,
Cecil Taylor,
Sun City Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Black Bananas,
Johnny Clarke,
Hardrive,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moebius,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Godley & Creme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
F. McDonald,
DJ Sneak,
Deakin,
Average White Band,
48th St. Collective,
The Black Dice,
Siglo XX,
Altered Images,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Magma,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kenny Larkin,
Scott Walker,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Curtis Mayfield,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.