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 Russia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 Janne Schatter to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Peter & Gordon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Don Cherry,
The Real Kids,
Niagra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bootsy Collins,
Nick Fraelich,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bluetip,
Robert Hood,
The Birthday Party,
Rod Modell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Harmonia,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rotary Connection,
Can,
Warren Ellis,
Second Layer,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marine Girls,
Q and Not U,
Dorothy Ashby,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Audionom,
Black Flag,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joensuu 1685,
Roxy Music,
Yusef Lateef,
The Tremeloes,
Television,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Von Mondo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jawbox,
Freddie Wadling,
Half Japanese,
Crime,
Schoolly D,
Fatback Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deadbeat,
Todd Terry,
Blossom Toes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sex Pistols,
Pole,
Amon Düül II,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pierre Henry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ohio Players,
Minor Threat,
Althea and Donna,
Dawn Penn,
Pylon,
The Velvet Underground,
Symarip,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.