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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Shuggie Otis to the jazz 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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
The Music Machine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joy Division,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sonny Sharrock,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hot Snakes,
Byron Stingily,
Janne Schatter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wings,
Siglo XX,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Black Bananas,
The Sound,
Soft Cell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Avey Tare,
The Neon Judgement,
Bluetip,
Jesper Dahlback,
Little Man,
ABBA,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Maleditus Sound,
The Victims,
The Selecter,
Steve Hackett,
Rites of Spring,
Eden Ahbez,
Ten City,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Lydon,
Bob Dylan,
Marvin Gaye,
DJ Sneak,
New Order,
Iggy Pop,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Slits,
Chrome,
Bill Near,
James White and The Blacks,
Skriet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Amon Düül,
The Toasters,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young,
Slick Rick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Make Up,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.