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 Greece and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Country Teasers to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Arthur Verocai,
Blancmange,
The Golliwogs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Green,
Darondo,
Index,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eric Copeland,
OOIOO,
Mark Hollis,
Bauhaus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Derrick May,
Sexual Harrassment,
T.S.O.L.,
Sparks,
The Fortunes,
Duran Duran,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ice-T,
Hoover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ralphi Rosario,
X-102,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mad Mike,
Barrington Levy,
MC5,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
Pagans,
Zero Boys,
Rotary Connection,
Peter and Kerry,
Boogie Down Productions,
Althea and Donna,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Normal,
Ludus,
a-ha,
Frankie Knuckles,
Big Daddy Kane,
June Days,
Joyce Sims,
Charles Mingus,
Japan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Model 500,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sex Pistols,
The Selecter,
the Bar-Kays,
Swans,
Roy Ayers,
Ken Boothe,
the Swans,
Ohio Players,
The American Breed,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.