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 Palau and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 David McCallum to the dance 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Mo-Dettes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slick Rick,
Schoolly D,
10cc,
The Gladiators,
Camouflage,
Prince Buster,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dawn Penn,
Oblivians,
Dual Sessions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tears for Fears,
Sight & Sound,
June of 44,
Anthony Braxton,
Parry Music,
Basic Channel,
Quantec,
The Move,
Isaac Hayes,
These Immortal Souls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Modern Lovers,
Ludus,
The Toasters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Derrick May,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Groovy Waters,
Idris Muhammad,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gories,
Radiohead,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Aswad,
Peter and Kerry,
Brick,
Liliput,
The Raincoats,
MC5,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Kinks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fad Gadget,
The Mojo Men,
Fluxion,
Sex Pistols,
Jacob Miller,
Theoretical Girls,
The Associates,
Von Mondo,
Marc Almond,
Amazonics,
Suicide,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.