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 Somalia and from Cairo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eric Copeland to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
U.S. Maple,
The Gories,
Tom Boy,
Young Marble Giants,
Joey Negro,
Nico,
Neil Young,
Roger Hodgson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Symarip,
Nick Fraelich,
Bad Manners,
June Days,
Bobby Byrd,
Peter and Kerry,
Visage,
Donny Hathaway,
Section 25,
B.T. Express,
The Neon Judgement,
Erasure,
Cybotron,
Jerry's Kids,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ten City,
Alphaville,
Television,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yellowson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scan 7,
Von Mondo,
Boredoms,
Whodini,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Procol Harum,
Juan Atkins,
Howard Jones,
Colin Newman,
The Invisible,
Sandy B,
Siglo XX,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ohio Players,
The Move,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eddi Front,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
the Fania All-Stars,
Glambeats Corp.,
Supertramp,
Stiv Bators,
Todd Terry,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.