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 Ecuador and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Warsaw to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Japan,
ABC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Charles Mingus,
Pole,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mars,
The Pop Group,
Intrusion,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camouflage,
Crispy Ambulance,
LL Cool J,
The Mummies,
U.S. Maple,
The Happenings,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
Junior Murvin,
MC5,
Idris Muhammad,
Rufus Thomas,
X-Ray Spex,
Subhumans,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Halsall,
X-102,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erykah Badu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Black Dice,
Josef K,
The Move,
Lalo Schifrin,
L. Decosne,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Sonics,
Cal Tjader,
Con Funk Shun,
Index,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bad Manners,
Oblivians,
Gerry Rafferty,
Spoonie Gee,
Funkadelic,
Boredoms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
X-101,
Faraquet,
Accadde A,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Monochrome Set,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
Whodini,
Shoche,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.