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 Bolivia and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Motorama to the dance 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nik Kershaw,
Dorothy Ashby,
Whodini,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fire Engines,
Donald Byrd,
Peter and Kerry,
Grey Daturas,
Eurythmics,
Al Stewart,
Agent Orange,
Soft Cell,
Minny Pops,
cv313,
Agitation Free,
Frankie Knuckles,
Johnny Clarke,
Parry Music,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
R.M.O.,
Stiv Bators,
Monks,
OOIOO,
The Happenings,
Rites of Spring,
Qualms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quando Quango,
The Cowsills,
Sun City Girls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Von Mondo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Matthew Bourne,
Pylon,
Warsaw,
Delta 5,
The Selecter,
Bush Tetras,
Quantec,
Donny Hathaway,
Oblivians,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Doobie Brothers,
Deadbeat,
The Offenders,
Chris Corsano,
Mission of Burma,
Yazoo,
Pulsallama,
U.S. Maple,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Martian,
Pet Shop Boys,
Public Enemy,
Unrelated Segments,
Fela Kuti,
Funkadelic,
The Electric Prunes,
The Skatalites,
Kayak,
Urselle,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.