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 Zambia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 chamberlin 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 Scan 7 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dawn Penn,
Basic Channel,
The Pretty Things,
Sun City Girls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
K-Klass,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
Anakelly,
Agitation Free,
Nirvana,
Ten City,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rotary Connection,
CMW,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABC,
Nick Fraelich,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Livin' Joy,
Kerri Chandler,
The Birthday Party,
The Blackbyrds,
Ornette Coleman,
Scott Walker,
Bronski Beat,
Sun Ra,
Lyres,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thompson Twins,
The Black Dice,
World's Most,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sparks,
Gang Green,
The Fall,
Siglo XX,
David McCallum,
Skriet,
Pantytec,
Cameo,
Silicon Teens,
Tommy Roe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
Joey Negro,
John Foxx,
Intrusion,
June of 44,
Suicide,
Marc Almond,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Shadows of Knight,
JFA,
Talk Talk,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.