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 Samoa and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar 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 Lalann to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
The Electric Prunes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Todd Terry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fortunes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Scan 7,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül II,
Das Ding,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
B.T. Express,
Cal Tjader,
The Index,
Jawbox,
Alphaville,
The Cure,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joensuu 1685,
Symarip,
The Music Machine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mission of Burma,
Vladislav Delay,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Shadows of Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Second Layer,
Soul II Soul,
Mark Hollis,
Grauzone,
Rod Modell,
The Litter,
Althea and Donna,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Circle Jerks,
Yellowson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cybotron,
Wasted Youth,
The Dead C,
The Stooges,
The Monks,
Delta 5,
the Swans,
Depeche Mode,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantaleimon,
Black Bananas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jeff Lynne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.