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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Essential Logic to the disco 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Graham Central Station,
Boogie Down Productions,
Maleditus Sound,
Agent Orange,
The Angels of Light,
Warsaw,
OOIOO,
Groovy Waters,
Bobby Womack,
Pantaleimon,
The Cramps,
The Skatalites,
The Cowsills,
Rotary Connection,
Saccharine Trust,
MDC,
Minny Pops,
The Associates,
Nick Fraelich,
R.M.O.,
Eli Mardock,
Accadde A,
Donald Byrd,
Rod Modell,
Icehouse,
T.S.O.L.,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang of Four,
Matthew Halsall,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Chris & Cosey,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tears for Fears,
Steve Hackett,
LL Cool J,
Rakim,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Aural Exciters,
Banda Bassotti,
Mantronix,
The Velvet Underground,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultra Naté,
Flash Fearless,
The Count Five,
Dark Day,
Todd Terry,
Toni Rubio,
Theoretical Girls,
Piero Umiliani,
Nirvana,
Japan,
PIL,
Lou Christie,
Popol Vuh,
Ohio Players,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.