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 Somalia and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 The Velvet Underground to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Wings,
Avey Tare,
Sun Ra,
Sister Nancy,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erykah Badu,
Anthony Braxton,
Mary Jane Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nirvana,
Blossom Toes,
Barrington Levy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Panda Bear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Doors,
Symarip,
Hardrive,
Smog,
the Soft Cell,
Severed Heads,
Little Man,
Bootsy Collins,
Duran Duran,
Sonny Sharrock,
Neu!,
OOIOO,
Popol Vuh,
The Slits,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
John Coltrane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Real Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
Trumans Water,
The Cowsills,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Bourne,
Crime,
Barbara Tucker,
Unwound,
Babytalk,
Chrome,
Cameo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Aaron Thompson,
The Human League,
FM Einheit,
Magazine,
Tom Boy,
Ludus,
Mark Hollis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Quadrant,
The Gap Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
PIL,
Amon Düül II,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.