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 Venezuela and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Subhumans,
Suicide,
The Human League,
The Star Department,
Bobby Sherman,
Iggy Pop,
Matthew Halsall,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tubeway Army,
Letta Mbulu,
Joy Division,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nirvana,
Infiniti,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Massinfluence,
Bluetip,
Amon Düül,
The Doors,
Black Sheep,
MC5,
Althea and Donna,
Marmalade,
Das Ding,
Marshall Jefferson,
ABC,
The Gories,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sex Pistols,
The Zeros,
Main Source,
Animal Collective,
New York Dolls,
DNA,
Minutemen,
The Pop Group,
Faust,
LL Cool J,
Urselle,
The Skatalites,
Los Fastidios,
Babytalk,
Nick Fraelich,
Royal Trux,
The Detroit Cobras,
Joe Smooth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Bowie,
Easy Going,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalann,
Accadde A,
Tim Buckley,
Prince Buster,
Mission of Burma,
James White and The Blacks,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.