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 Guyana and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro 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 The Fortunes to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The American Breed,
Mark Hollis,
Wire,
The Durutti Column,
Funky Four + One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Mad Mike,
Johnny Clarke,
Joe Finger,
Alison Limerick,
The Move,
Anthony Braxton,
Morten Harket,
Intrusion,
Lalo Schifrin,
New York Dolls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Young Marble Giants,
Japan,
Derrick Morgan,
The Busters,
Amon Düül,
Au Pairs,
Ultravox,
Sound Behaviour,
Big Daddy Kane,
These Immortal Souls,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pantaleimon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eddi Front,
The Index,
Soul II Soul,
Angry Samoans,
Steve Hackett,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Christie,
Dorothy Ashby,
Youth Brigade,
Joey Negro,
the Human League,
Flash Fearless,
Lightning Bolt,
Q and Not U,
Agitation Free,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crash Course in Science,
Kaleidoscope,
Connie Case,
Mandrill,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Terry Callier,
Graham Central Station,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Zeros,
Skarface,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.