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 Egypt and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Vogues to the funk 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
JFA,
Supertramp,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Raincoats,
Simply Red,
Vainqueur,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lyres,
Hoover,
The Slackers,
Ornette Coleman,
KRS-One,
The Searchers,
The Associates,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Unrelated Segments,
Pere Ubu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Arcadia,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Remains,
FM Einheit,
Pantytec,
Gang Green,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Toasters,
Flipper,
Average White Band,
Unwound,
The Fugs,
The Human League,
Harmonia,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Patti Smith,
Deakin,
The Blackbyrds,
ABC,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sugar Minott,
Joy Division,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mark Hollis,
The Blues Magoos,
The Happenings,
The Index,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Foxx,
H. Thieme,
Rotary Connection,
Shoche,
PIL,
The Trojans,
Severed Heads,
Heaven 17,
Depeche Mode,
Ultravox,
Harpers Bizarre,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
Scrapy,
Max Romeo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.