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 Montenegro and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Eurythmics to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
David McCallum,
Little Man,
Infiniti,
Lyres,
Gichy Dan,
Guru Guru,
Goldenarms,
Dark Day,
The Victims,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marmalade,
The Monochrome Set,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tears for Fears,
The Beau Brummels,
Mission of Burma,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Main Source,
Arcadia,
Delta 5,
Bobby Sherman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tim Buckley,
Ronan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Sheep,
Television Personalities,
Ituana,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang Green,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
UT,
Unrelated Segments,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flipper,
Ossler,
Sun City Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Ohio Players,
Ice-T,
Ken Boothe,
Chrome,
Fela Kuti,
Pere Ubu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Theoretical Girls,
Connie Case,
Ultra Naté,
Severed Heads,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Metal Thangz,
Rakim,
Morten Harket,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Newcleus,
Max Romeo,
Drexciya,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.