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 Monaco and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Dennis Brown to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Carl Craig,
Zapp,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
China Crisis,
The Skatalites,
Lyres,
A Certain Ratio,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Donald Byrd,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker,
The Names,
Swell Maps,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
John Coltrane,
the Slits,
The Stooges,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brand Nubian,
Roy Ayers,
Funky Four + One,
Bang On A Can,
Wolf Eyes,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Busters,
Rosa Yemen,
Henry Cow,
David McCallum,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jeff Mills,
Minor Threat,
Steve Hackett,
Maleditus Sound,
Quadrant,
Johnny Clarke,
Iggy Pop,
ABBA,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Zeros,
Hardrive,
Spandau Ballet,
8 Eyed Spy,
Althea and Donna,
Pere Ubu,
Delta 5,
Sonic Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sound,
R.M.O.,
Joey Negro,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cameo,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.