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 Albania and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Agent Orange to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sugar Minott,
Jacob Miller,
Von Mondo,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gun Club,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Vogues,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Cramps,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Y Pants,
Johnny Clarke,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Newcleus,
Sällskapet,
The American Breed,
The Martian,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gong,
The Dave Clark Five,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
These Immortal Souls,
Freddie Wadling,
Saccharine Trust,
Donald Byrd,
D'Angelo,
ABBA,
The Fall,
Banda Bassotti,
Yazoo,
Eddi Front,
The Mighty Diamonds,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronan,
Sun City Girls,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Flash Fearless,
Stiv Bators,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Schoolly D,
Rites of Spring,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skaos,
Accadde A,
Pere Ubu,
Monks,
The Motions,
The Offenders,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Clear Light,
Trumans Water,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fela Kuti,
The Invisible,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aaron Thompson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
New Age Steppers,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.