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 Korea South and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Negative Approach to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Alice Coltrane,
Dave Gahan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eurythmics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roxette,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Derrick May,
Accadde A,
Hasil Adkins,
Icehouse,
Wire,
Bootsy Collins,
Tomorrow,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mummies,
The Mojo Men,
Easy Going,
Tres Demented,
The Detroit Cobras,
Agitation Free,
Rod Modell,
Urselle,
CMW,
Newcleus,
Skriet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ornette Coleman,
Supertramp,
Kayak,
The Barracudas,
Outsiders,
AZ,
Morten Harket,
Quantec,
The Martian,
Anakelly,
Depeche Mode,
Spandau Ballet,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Gun Club,
Cameo,
Joyce Sims,
Minor Threat,
Liliput,
Lou Christie,
Crash Course in Science,
Connie Case,
FM Einheit,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cluster,
Bauhaus,
The J.B.'s,
Los Fastidios,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wasted Youth,
Alphaville,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.