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 Sweden and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare 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 a-ha to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
T.S.O.L.,
L. Decosne,
The Cramps,
The Saints,
Godley & Creme,
Tres Demented,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Make Up,
Moss Icon,
Harpers Bizarre,
ABC,
Ronan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Silicon Teens,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra,
Animal Collective,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Golliwogs,
Organ,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cymande,
Ossler,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
JFA,
Michelle Simonal,
Yusef Lateef,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Residents,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fela Kuti,
AZ,
Barrington Levy,
One Last Wish,
Bang On A Can,
Isaac Hayes,
Q65,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Letta Mbulu,
The Smoke,
Gregory Isaacs,
Heaven 17,
Spoonie Gee,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Half Japanese,
Donald Byrd,
Eve St. Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Modern Lovers,
Shuggie Otis,
Bad Manners,
Basic Channel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kerri Chandler,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
The Gun Club,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Sound,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.