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 Andorra and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Man Parrish to the disco 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Leaves,
Brothers Johnson,
a-ha,
Tom Boy,
Oblivians,
Soft Machine,
Panda Bear,
Grey Daturas,
the Normal,
LL Cool J,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
ABBA,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Crash Course in Science,
The Happenings,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Görl,
Drexciya,
Section 25,
Oneida,
Gang Starr,
Scion,
Buzzcocks,
Stetsasonic,
10cc,
Alison Limerick,
Rufus Thomas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Spandau Ballet,
Bill Wells,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric Dolphy,
Kerrie Biddell,
X-101,
Joensuu 1685,
Cheater Slicks,
James White and The Blacks,
Peter and Kerry,
Fugazi,
Chris Corsano,
Das Ding,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Motions,
Slave,
Arthur Verocai,
kango's stein massive,
Model 500,
Zero Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pierre Henry,
Cybotron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thompson Twins,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.