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 Iraq and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Josef K to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
The Gap Band,
Morten Harket,
Alton Ellis,
Quantec,
Public Enemy,
Roxette,
Scratch Acid,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cure,
Joe Finger,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Toasters,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yellowson,
T.S.O.L.,
Nils Olav,
the Soft Cell,
David Axelrod,
Minor Threat,
Ronan,
Au Pairs,
Hoover,
Trumans Water,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hot Snakes,
Yazoo,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moss Icon,
Gang Starr,
The Victims,
Country Teasers,
Black Sheep,
ABBA,
Soft Cell,
Kenny Larkin,
Main Source,
Sällskapet,
Freddie Wadling,
Q65,
The Gun Club,
Maleditus Sound,
Wire,
Terrestrial Tones,
Television Personalities,
Althea and Donna,
The Golliwogs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bootsy Collins,
Los Fastidios,
Sun City Girls,
Bush Tetras,
Hashim,
Sonic Youth,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joey Negro,
Grauzone,
Delta 5,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.