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 Comoros and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
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 Lou Reed 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 The Music Machine to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Fad Gadget,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Suburban Knight,
The Sonics,
Jandek,
Brick,
The Black Dice,
The Knickerbockers,
Lucky Dragons,
The Happenings,
Maleditus Sound,
The Toasters,
Godley & Creme,
Yusef Lateef,
Yaz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Human League,
Donny Hathaway,
Neu!,
Oblivians,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rufus Thomas,
Arthur Verocai,
Rod Modell,
Roxy Music,
Scott Walker,
Fela Kuti,
Faraquet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cybotron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
David McCallum,
Los Fastidios,
Aloha Tigers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Urselle,
Junior Murvin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cameo,
Absolute Body Control,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nik Kershaw,
Pagans,
Zapp,
Kevin Saunderson,
Outsiders,
Roger Hodgson,
Arab on Radar,
The Mojo Men,
Dennis Brown,
The Remains,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Susan Cadogan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.