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 Lithuania and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
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 organ 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 Flipper to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kurtis Blow,
The Trojans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sarah Menescal,
The Black Dice,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Model 500,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tim Buckley,
Cameo,
The Count Five,
The Gories,
kango's stein massive,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mo-Dettes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Urselle,
Fad Gadget,
The Moody Blues,
DNA,
Smog,
Bootsy Collins,
Brand Nubian,
Juan Atkins,
Darondo,
Magma,
Peter & Gordon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fugazi,
Sällskapet,
Hashim,
Joe Finger,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Avey Tare,
The Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
Howard Jones,
Half Japanese,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
AZ,
The Modern Lovers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moebius,
Fluxion,
Mad Mike,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang Green,
Pagans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Circle Jerks,
Quando Quango,
World's Most,
Procol Harum,
Lindisfarne,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.