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 Mozambique and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator 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 Eden Ahbez to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DJ Style,
Infiniti,
Erasure,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Misunderstood,
Roy Ayers,
Godley & Creme,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Motorama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rapeman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Walker Brothers,
Pere Ubu,
The Music Machine,
Aural Exciters,
Drive Like Jehu,
48th St. Collective,
Subhumans,
The Motions,
Camberwell Now,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Stooges,
The Buckinghams,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Pretty Things,
Gabor Szabo,
L. Decosne,
The Dead C,
kango's stein massive,
The Happenings,
The Golliwogs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
Howard Jones,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Qualms,
Marshall Jefferson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Y Pants,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang Gang Dance,
FM Einheit,
Toni Rubio,
Interpol,
Mission of Burma,
In Retrospect,
Black Bananas,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Smoke,
Zapp,
Bauhaus,
Scientists,
Bad Manners,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David McCallum,
Marine Girls,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.