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 Barbados 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Dual Sessions to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
The Slits,
Country Teasers,
Electric Prunes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marmalade,
Liliput,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aswad,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Stiv Bators,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Stooges,
Marine Girls,
Mandrill,
Janne Schatter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Urselle,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sugar Minott,
Fat Boys,
Easy Going,
Malaria!,
Josef K,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minor Threat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Sherman,
Brand Nubian,
Eli Mardock,
Sparks,
Eurythmics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Quadrant,
Kurtis Blow,
Bad Manners,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Yazoo,
Brick,
Scott Walker,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lower 48,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Soft Machine,
Lou Christie,
Lucky Dragons,
Monks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Surgeon,
Main Source,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stockholm Monsters,
Susan Cadogan,
Spoonie Gee,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The United States of America,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cowsills,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.