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 Madagascar and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 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 Matthew Bourne to the crunk 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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Sugar Minott,
Jerry Gold Smith,
FM Einheit,
Glenn Branca,
Lakeside,
Barbara Tucker,
Icehouse,
Young Marble Giants,
Terry Callier,
Ituana,
Sonic Youth,
Delta 5,
Groovy Waters,
The Gun Club,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tres Demented,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brothers Johnson,
R.M.O.,
Sandy B,
Stetsasonic,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cal Tjader,
Morten Harket,
The Skatalites,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fall,
Donny Hathaway,
Slick Rick,
Gang Gang Dance,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
Ohio Players,
Spandau Ballet,
Surgeon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Stooges,
Nas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slits,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Red Krayola,
Fluxion,
Sun City Girls,
Anakelly,
The Blackbyrds,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Josef K,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rekid,
Maurizio,
The Smiths,
Scientists,
Ultravox,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.