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 Korea South and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 harpsichord 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 Don Cherry to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Boz Scaggs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Traffic Nightmare,
Nick Fraelich,
Visage,
10cc,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
Audionom,
Black Flag,
Hoover,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soft Cell,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sex Pistols,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Junior Murvin,
Scott Walker,
John Lydon,
Mandrill,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fall,
The Fuzztones,
Sixth Finger,
Amon Düül,
This Heat,
Babytalk,
David McCallum,
Rhythm & Sound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pantytec,
The Standells,
Fluxion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Roxy Music,
The Durutti Column,
The Birthday Party,
Chrome,
Glambeats Corp.,
Quantec,
Funkadelic,
Nas,
Reuben Wilson,
Arcadia,
Neu!,
The Barracudas,
Drive Like Jehu,
A Certain Ratio,
The New Christs,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Velvet Underground,
D'Angelo,
John Cale,
Sight & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Remains,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxette,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.