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 Vietnam and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Lou Reed 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 Organ to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
The Golliwogs,
The Invisible,
The Leaves,
LL Cool J,
Joe Smooth,
The Cramps,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Negative Approach,
Second Layer,
Albert Ayler,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Bar-Kays,
Pylon,
Oblivians,
The Raincoats,
The New Christs,
T.S.O.L.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
Arab on Radar,
Judy Mowatt,
Motorama,
Banda Bassotti,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
DJ Sneak,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
Deakin,
Moss Icon,
Susan Cadogan,
Public Enemy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wolf Eyes,
Roger Hodgson,
Depeche Mode,
FM Einheit,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stetsasonic,
The Gladiators,
Alison Limerick,
Sam Rivers,
Schoolly D,
James White and The Blacks,
Amon Düül II,
DNA,
Arcadia,
DJ Style,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Spoonie Gee,
OOIOO,
The Techniques,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mark Hollis,
Barbara Tucker,
Kerri Chandler,
Kurtis Blow,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.