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 Pakistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marine Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Franke,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Barbara Tucker,
Anthony Braxton,
Amazonics,
Los Fastidios,
Newcleus,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Selecter,
The Cramps,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Underground Resistance,
Simply Red,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Human League,
Vladislav Delay,
Boz Scaggs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alphaville,
Half Japanese,
Gang of Four,
Al Stewart,
Skaos,
Spandau Ballet,
Cameo,
Connie Case,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Darondo,
Deadbeat,
Interpol,
Chris & Cosey,
Harmonia,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Peter & Gordon,
Bad Manners,
Todd Terry,
Kayak,
Adolescents,
DJ Style,
the Soft Cell,
Whodini,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Blossom Toes,
Fat Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
The Trojans,
Dual Sessions,
Mission of Burma,
Crispy Ambulance,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.