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 Chile and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ossler to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Japan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Agitation Free,
Amon Düül II,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hot Snakes,
Mission of Burma,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stereo Dub,
kango's stein massive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lungfish,
China Crisis,
Barry Ungar,
X-102,
Buzzcocks,
JFA,
Massinfluence,
Aloha Tigers,
Derrick May,
Alton Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Hoover,
Ken Boothe,
Camberwell Now,
Funkadelic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Michelle Simonal,
The Music Machine,
Eddi Front,
Jawbox,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Khruangbin,
Bootsy Collins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kenny Larkin,
The Sound,
Scott Walker,
Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
the Bar-Kays,
Lindisfarne,
Tropical Tobacco,
Metal Thangz,
Unrelated Segments,
The Gladiators,
The Happenings,
Second Layer,
Gang Green,
The Divine Comedy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boz Scaggs,
FM Einheit,
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.