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 Colombia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum 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 Bush Tetras to the techno 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
10cc,
Slick Rick,
ABBA,
Eli Mardock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Funky Four + One,
Symarip,
Silicon Teens,
The Barracudas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barclay James Harvest,
Stereo Dub,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Misunderstood,
Prince Buster,
The J.B.'s,
Mary Jane Girls,
E-Dancer,
Surgeon,
Scion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Panda Bear,
Deepchord,
Maleditus Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ronnie Foster,
Underground Resistance,
UT,
The Raincoats,
Supertramp,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eric Dolphy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thee Headcoats,
Tubeway Army,
New Age Steppers,
Toni Rubio,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bootsy Collins,
Charles Mingus,
Wasted Youth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fat Boys,
Pierre Henry,
Subhumans,
Joensuu 1685,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Young Marble Giants,
Bob Dylan,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T.S.O.L.,
Ponytail,
Scan 7,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
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.