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 Kosovo and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Anakelly,
The Pop Group,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boredoms,
Soulsonic Force,
E-Dancer,
Circle Jerks,
Sandy B,
Eddi Front,
The Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Bar-Kays,
John Foxx,
Kenny Larkin,
Khruangbin,
Archie Shepp,
The Evens,
Dave Gahan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nick Fraelich,
the Swans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Donny Hathaway,
Thompson Twins,
Public Enemy,
Grauzone,
Marine Girls,
Y Pants,
Alton Ellis,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gabor Szabo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grey Daturas,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stetsasonic,
Robert Hood,
Funky Four + One,
Sly & The Family Stone,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brass Construction,
Stockholm Monsters,
Stereo Dub,
Matthew Halsall,
The Slackers,
Rapeman,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Maleditus Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Star Department,
The Zeros,
Max Romeo,
Jawbox,
David Bowie,
Yellowson,
Moebius,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.