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 China and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 L. Decosne to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Josef K,
Metal Thangz,
The Fire Engines,
The Black Dice,
Kas Product,
The Skatalites,
Arab on Radar,
The Vogues,
Neu!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brick,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Raincoats,
Sandy B,
Henry Cow,
MDC,
Joensuu 1685,
Pagans,
Scott Walker,
Y Pants,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Red Krayola,
OOIOO,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
The Zeros,
Nirvana,
June Days,
PIL,
Gabor Szabo,
The Pretty Things,
Marvin Gaye,
Patti Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camberwell Now,
Erasure,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cymande,
Jerry's Kids,
Fat Boys,
Altered Images,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hot Snakes,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Cale,
Crime,
Section 25,
Al Stewart,
Nils Olav,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
One Last Wish,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Human League,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.