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 Sweden and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bizarre Inc. to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Pole,
Rhythm & Sound,
One Last Wish,
Ken Boothe,
The Grass Roots,
Youth Brigade,
Brick,
Erykah Badu,
Goldenarms,
The Sonics,
Nick Fraelich,
Altered Images,
DNA,
the Sonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stetsasonic,
Cluster,
The Dead C,
Gang Starr,
Patti Smith,
The Walker Brothers,
Rapeman,
OOIOO,
Dawn Penn,
Banda Bassotti,
Dual Sessions,
Marvin Gaye,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dark Day,
Derrick Morgan,
Swell Maps,
Gong,
Man Eating Sloth,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Sheep,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pop Group,
Sandy B,
Animal Collective,
The Real Kids,
Peter & Gordon,
Avey Tare,
Pagans,
Visage,
Lou Christie,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jesper Dahlback,
Yellowson,
The Names,
Organ,
The Victims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ituana,
Monks,
The Remains,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.