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 Kosovo and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 the Normal to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Eric Dolphy,
Warren Ellis,
Byron Stingily,
the Swans,
The Fortunes,
Sam Rivers,
The Stooges,
Don Cherry,
Aural Exciters,
The United States of America,
Babytalk,
Marmalade,
Pulsallama,
Joensuu 1685,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-102,
Yellowson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gichy Dan,
The Sound,
Scott Walker,
La Düsseldorf,
Technova,
Animal Collective,
Dawn Penn,
Model 500,
Severed Heads,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
B.T. Express,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Procol Harum,
Guru Guru,
Black Flag,
The Dave Clark Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Names,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minor Threat,
Barclay James Harvest,
E-Dancer,
Ludus,
Bobby Sherman,
Intrusion,
The Slits,
Nik Kershaw,
The Selecter,
Janne Schatter,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Residents,
Idris Muhammad,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gong,
Massinfluence,
Talk Talk,
the Soft Cell,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.