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 Kiribati and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe 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 Moby Grape to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Moon,
Motorama,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tomorrow,
Donny Hathaway,
Fatback Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warren Ellis,
X-Ray Spex,
Pagans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Depeche Mode,
Godley & Creme,
Public Enemy,
Dave Gahan,
Altered Images,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Human League,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soft Cell,
Roxy Music,
Inner City,
Organ,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blake Baxter,
The Names,
The Gun Club,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Saccharine Trust,
Wire,
Au Pairs,
Dual Sessions,
Brothers Johnson,
Connie Case,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Christie,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Angels of Light,
Rotary Connection,
Derrick Morgan,
The Selecter,
Royal Trux,
Laurel Aitken,
The Modern Lovers,
the Sonics,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soulsonic Force,
The Smiths,
Arthur Verocai,
The Victims,
Aural Exciters,
The Residents,
DJ Style,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Livin' Joy,
Kayak,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.