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 Malta and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fela Kuti to the crunk 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
The Tremeloes,
Mantronix,
Kerrie Biddell,
JFA,
Pantaleimon,
Kerri Chandler,
Hasil Adkins,
Stereo Dub,
Connie Case,
Rekid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Slick Rick,
The Sound,
Spandau Ballet,
Sixth Finger,
Wings,
Animal Collective,
Skriet,
Deepchord,
Bob Dylan,
Underground Resistance,
Gregory Isaacs,
Janne Schatter,
Lucky Dragons,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q65,
The Offenders,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Modern Lovers,
Grauzone,
Jerry's Kids,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Pus,
Vainqueur,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
Fatback Band,
Davy DMX,
Gabor Szabo,
World's Most,
Carl Craig,
The Invisible,
Malaria!,
Swans,
Quando Quango,
ABC,
Infiniti,
Zapp,
E-Dancer,
kango's stein massive,
Gichy Dan,
Unrelated Segments,
Blancmange,
Circle Jerks,
Main Source,
The Moleskins,
Yusef Lateef,
Spoonie Gee,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Theoretical Girls,
Tears for Fears,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.