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 Pakistan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Tubeway Army to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Desert Stars,
Gabor Szabo,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
The Evens,
Barry Ungar,
a-ha,
Isaac Hayes,
Grauzone,
Davy DMX,
Ludus,
X-101,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Visage,
The J.B.'s,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lyres,
Scott Walker,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sex Pistols,
Agitation Free,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marine Girls,
The Motions,
Sarah Menescal,
Suicide,
Lakeside,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Model 500,
Swell Maps,
Tommy Roe,
Yaz,
Delta 5,
Black Pus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minnie Riperton,
John Foxx,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fatback Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Second Layer,
Country Teasers,
Yellowson,
Negative Approach,
Chris & Cosey,
Motorama,
The Gladiators,
Little Man,
Joy Division,
New Order,
Traffic Nightmare,
Shuggie Otis,
Scan 7,
Jandek,
T.S.O.L.,
Jerry's Kids,
Bauhaus,
Robert Görl,
ABBA,
Pagans,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.