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 Israel and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bluetip to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Sister Nancy,
Crooked Eye,
The Smoke,
Chrome,
Flamin' Groovies,
Groovy Waters,
Subhumans,
Joey Negro,
The Flesh Eaters,
Cecil Taylor,
Deakin,
ABC,
Magma,
the Association,
Colin Newman,
Con Funk Shun,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nirvana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
U.S. Maple,
The Kinks,
John Holt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lucky Dragons,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Names,
Sällskapet,
Jeff Lynne,
Juan Atkins,
Gang Starr,
Minor Threat,
Harry Pussy,
Skarface,
Wally Richardson,
Tres Demented,
Soft Machine,
OOIOO,
Porter Ricks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Basic Channel,
Grey Daturas,
The Smiths,
The Vogues,
Brick,
KRS-One,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter & Gordon,
Can,
Trumans Water,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Christie,
Joensuu 1685,
Dark Day,
The Blackbyrds,
FM Einheit,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.