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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Alphaville to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Babytalk,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash,
Anakelly,
Archie Shepp,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nas,
Sarah Menescal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nik Kershaw,
Wasted Youth,
Lalann,
The Mummies,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Essential Logic,
LL Cool J,
Cameo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rapeman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultra Naté,
the Swans,
Oblivians,
Hasil Adkins,
Sandy B,
Todd Terry,
Lyres,
Massinfluence,
Soulsonic Force,
Amon Düül,
Soft Cell,
Gabor Szabo,
Main Source,
Deakin,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Zapp,
Newcleus,
June of 44,
Chris & Cosey,
Terry Callier,
Joe Finger,
The Sound,
Motorama,
The Fire Engines,
Black Bananas,
Stockholm Monsters,
Skriet,
Faust,
Jerry's Kids,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Vladislav Delay,
Black Sheep,
Urselle,
Aaron Thompson,
Q and Not U,
The Cure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moebius,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.