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 Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin 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 Drive Like Jehu to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultravox,
Peter & Gordon,
The Victims,
Alphaville,
Scott Walker,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fugazi,
Cybotron,
The Move,
The Divine Comedy,
The Five Americans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Motions,
Lucky Dragons,
The Mummies,
Rhythm & Sound,
Television,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Unwound,
The J.B.'s,
Brick,
Can,
Cymande,
Bronski Beat,
David Axelrod,
Suburban Knight,
Colin Newman,
The Names,
EPMD,
Slick Rick,
Isaac Hayes,
Delta 5,
Half Japanese,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eurythmics,
Eric B and Rakim,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arab on Radar,
Marvin Gaye,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sandy B,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Q and Not U,
The Smoke,
Second Layer,
Bobby Womack,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Henry Cow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Severed Heads,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.