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 Monaco and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the techno 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Rekid,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Grass Roots,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tomorrow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Bananas,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Kinks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Popol Vuh,
The Selecter,
Infiniti,
Radiopuhelimet,
Qualms,
Eden Ahbez,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
Camouflage,
The Victims,
Gang Gang Dance,
Josef K,
Nas,
ABC,
The Gap Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Public Enemy,
The Smiths,
Silicon Teens,
Pylon,
Shuggie Otis,
Freddie Wadling,
Scrapy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Con Funk Shun,
The Smoke,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Iggy Pop,
Sixth Finger,
Second Layer,
Morten Harket,
Tim Buckley,
Kayak,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Cramps,
Toni Rubio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Andrew Hill,
Lyres,
John Holt,
Wally Richardson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fad Gadget,
Piero Umiliani,
Cecil Taylor,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yusef Lateef,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.