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 Congo and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 The Doors to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Junior Murvin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monolake,
The Offenders,
Banda Bassotti,
Ituana,
Steve Hackett,
The Happenings,
E-Dancer,
Symarip,
10cc,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Freddie Wadling,
Sarah Menescal,
Mr. Review,
Crime,
Nik Kershaw,
Little Man,
Thompson Twins,
Gang Green,
Boz Scaggs,
Slave,
The Cramps,
Fluxion,
The Monks,
Minny Pops,
Tubeway Army,
Mo-Dettes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eurythmics,
Schoolly D,
Prince Buster,
A Certain Ratio,
The Gun Club,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Buckinghams,
Donny Hathaway,
Mandrill,
Clear Light,
Grauzone,
Agitation Free,
Archie Shepp,
Charles Mingus,
Motorama,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pole,
Oneida,
Peter and Kerry,
Sun Ra,
Dennis Brown,
Roy Ayers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Black Pus,
the Association,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.