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 Libya and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Desert Stars to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cecil Taylor,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Alphaville,
The Evens,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joensuu 1685,
Hasil Adkins,
The Walker Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Moebius,
Sandy B,
The Seeds,
Con Funk Shun,
Eurythmics,
June Days,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Coltrane,
Pagans,
Aloha Tigers,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Beau Brummels,
Lightning Bolt,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
James White and The Blacks,
Alice Coltrane,
Laurel Aitken,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Techniques,
Piero Umiliani,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Minor Threat,
Youth Brigade,
Groovy Waters,
Tommy Roe,
Can,
Connie Case,
Massinfluence,
Newcleus,
John Foxx,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Womack,
K-Klass,
Altered Images,
Barbara Tucker,
Masters at Work,
Darondo,
Unwound,
Quadrant,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pantaleimon,
Harry Pussy,
The Count Five,
CMW,
Soft Machine,
Michelle Simonal,
Derrick Morgan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood.
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.