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 Italy and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Michelle Simonal to the techno 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dark Day,
New Order,
Von Mondo,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Man Eating Sloth,
New York Dolls,
Robert Hood,
Howard Jones,
Darondo,
K-Klass,
Stetsasonic,
The Mummies,
Underground Resistance,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sugar Minott,
The Durutti Column,
Gil Scott Heron,
Wasted Youth,
Hot Snakes,
Popol Vuh,
The Velvet Underground,
Television,
Cecil Taylor,
Duran Duran,
Marine Girls,
Tears for Fears,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The New Christs,
Aloha Tigers,
Ituana,
Archie Shepp,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Massinfluence,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Fall,
MDC,
Scratch Acid,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Erasure,
The Cowsills,
Pet Shop Boys,
FM Einheit,
The Fuzztones,
Sight & Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Fraelich,
Second Layer,
B.T. Express,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
U.S. Maple,
Lower 48,
The Walker Brothers,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.