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 Ukraine and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare 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 The Alarm Clocks to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Human League,
Visage,
Eve St. Jones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Slackers,
X-102,
The Star Department,
Clear Light,
The Saints,
Hasil Adkins,
Rotary Connection,
Lungfish,
Rosa Yemen,
Al Stewart,
Dark Day,
Scott Walker,
Deadbeat,
Tim Buckley,
Godley & Creme,
Sugar Minott,
Juan Atkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mr. Review,
Agitation Free,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Colin Newman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Brass Construction,
One Last Wish,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra,
This Heat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Electric Prunes,
The Stooges,
Rekid,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Simply Red,
The Doors,
Masters at Work,
New York Dolls,
Blancmange,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unwound,
Avey Tare,
Massinfluence,
The Residents,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nils Olav,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Altered Images,
Lakeside,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Young Marble Giants,
Amon Düül,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cheater Slicks,
Parry Music,
Pole,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.