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 Hungary and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 The Martian to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fluxion,
Ronnie Foster,
Arthur Verocai,
Grauzone,
Yusef Lateef,
Wasted Youth,
Agent Orange,
Skriet,
Quando Quango,
Morten Harket,
Cabaret Voltaire,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mantronix,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gap Band,
Rites of Spring,
Sister Nancy,
The Fall,
Soul II Soul,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ossler,
AZ,
The Moleskins,
The Wake,
Y Pants,
PIL,
Scrapy,
These Immortal Souls,
Eurythmics,
Joe Smooth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stiv Bators,
The Blues Magoos,
The Real Kids,
Mary Jane Girls,
Make Up,
The Angels of Light,
The Sisters of Mercy,
K-Klass,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Young Rascals,
Darondo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Swans,
The Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Robert Hood,
The Move,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kool Moe Dee,
Arcadia,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Max Romeo,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sonics,
the Human League,
Danielle Patucci,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.