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 Peru and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 808 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 Minnie Riperton to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Connie Case,
The Neon Judgement,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crooked Eye,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
CMW,
Pharoah Sanders,
Khruangbin,
The Real Kids,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jacob Miller,
Essential Logic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tomorrow,
FM Einheit,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sound Behaviour,
The Skatalites,
Altered Images,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tres Demented,
Yaz,
AZ,
Gastr Del Sol,
48th St. Collective,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Adolescents,
Von Mondo,
The Smoke,
Patti Smith,
T.S.O.L.,
Trumans Water,
Clear Light,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Gap Band,
Archie Shepp,
Bauhaus,
Lucky Dragons,
Steve Hackett,
Blake Baxter,
Sight & Sound,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Moebius,
John Holt,
Dennis Brown,
Spandau Ballet,
Motorama,
The Dirtbombs,
The Leaves,
Minnie Riperton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MDC,
Public Image Ltd.,
Susan Cadogan,
Surgeon,
Pantaleimon,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.