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 Liberia and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
June of 44,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cure,
Bob Dylan,
Anakelly,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Idris Muhammad,
Bill Wells,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roxette,
Gang Starr,
T. Rex,
The Trojans,
James White and The Blacks,
The Fugs,
Marmalade,
Wasted Youth,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
Rosa Yemen,
Roxy Music,
The Zeros,
Con Funk Shun,
The Tremeloes,
Black Bananas,
Royal Trux,
The Grass Roots,
Essential Logic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Colin Newman,
Tubeway Army,
Aaron Thompson,
The Move,
John Lydon,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sonics,
Sun City Girls,
Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül,
Jandek,
Nick Fraelich,
Masters at Work,
Derrick Morgan,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mark Hollis,
Metal Thangz,
Eve St. Jones,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Index,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Names,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sex Pistols,
The Moleskins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.