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 Belarus and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 clarinet 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 E-Dancer 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Ronan,
Brass Construction,
Ken Boothe,
Japan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun City Girls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stiv Bators,
Motorama,
Goldenarms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rekid,
Sällskapet,
Delta 5,
Kerri Chandler,
John Holt,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fire Engines,
Excepter,
Ultra Naté,
Kaleidoscope,
Tim Buckley,
Dark Day,
Soul II Soul,
Gang Starr,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nick Fraelich,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Crooked Eye,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Mojo Men,
Qualms,
Mantronix,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Toasters,
Visage,
Lightning Bolt,
R.M.O.,
Sarah Menescal,
Sonic Youth,
the Slits,
Radiopuhelimet,
Blossom Toes,
Don Cherry,
Ten City,
June of 44,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Porter Ricks,
Panda Bear,
Arcadia,
Agent Orange,
U.S. Maple,
Babytalk,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.