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 Brazil and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rapeman to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wire,
Deepchord,
Newcleus,
Panda Bear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Quando Quango,
The Saints,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed,
X-102,
Rufus Thomas,
Shuggie Otis,
Magma,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gun Club,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Malaria!,
Pulsallama,
Adolescents,
The Buckinghams,
The Doors,
Little Man,
T.S.O.L.,
FM Einheit,
Donny Hathaway,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joyce Sims,
Unrelated Segments,
the Soft Cell,
The Slits,
Jerry's Kids,
John Coltrane,
Section 25,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soulsonic Force,
MC5,
the Bar-Kays,
Funky Four + One,
The Seeds,
The Remains,
The Music Machine,
Fatback Band,
The Black Dice,
The New Christs,
The Leaves,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Oneida,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Morten Harket,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.