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 Egypt and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Das Ding to the rap 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Real Kids,
The Kinks,
Basic Channel,
The Durutti Column,
Shoche,
Carl Craig,
New York Dolls,
Tubeway Army,
Rapeman,
Theoretical Girls,
Scrapy,
Bronski Beat,
Radio Birdman,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Sherman,
Isaac Hayes,
Technova,
Banda Bassotti,
Japan,
Nas,
Panda Bear,
The Slits,
Minny Pops,
Gong,
The Gap Band,
Royal Trux,
The Evens,
Jawbox,
X-102,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Audionom,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The American Breed,
Soul Sonic Force,
a-ha,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Model 500,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Icehouse,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Man Parrish,
Bobby Byrd,
Funkadelic,
Cybotron,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shuggie Otis,
Albert Ayler,
Agent Orange,
Pagans,
Toni Rubio,
The Barracudas,
Ten City,
The Count Five,
Aloha Tigers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Television,
Alphaville,
Flash Fearless,
Minor Threat,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.