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 Madagascar and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 DJ Style to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Toni Rubio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minor Threat,
Schoolly D,
Faraquet,
Aloha Tigers,
Second Layer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott Heron,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Alphaville,
JFA,
Fugazi,
Essential Logic,
the Sonics,
Scan 7,
Agent Orange,
Morten Harket,
Monolake,
The Toasters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Circle Jerks,
Q and Not U,
Henry Cow,
The Slackers,
Delon & Dalcan,
La Düsseldorf,
Ronan,
Kerri Chandler,
Excepter,
Peter and Kerry,
EPMD,
Goldenarms,
The Electric Prunes,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Divine Comedy,
David Bowie,
Parry Music,
Barry Ungar,
kango's stein massive,
Swans,
Terry Callier,
Joy Division,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Supertramp,
Fatback Band,
Guru Guru,
Cameo,
The Sonics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Star Department,
The Angels of Light,
Idris Muhammad,
The Modern Lovers,
Talk Talk,
Chrome,
Kurtis Blow,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.