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 New Zealand and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Donald Fagen 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 Marmalade 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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Reagan Youth,
Tres Demented,
The Shadows of Knight,
Colin Newman,
The Golliwogs,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mummies,
Dawn Penn,
48th St. Collective,
the Human League,
Agitation Free,
Absolute Body Control,
In Retrospect,
Fad Gadget,
World's Most,
Black Moon,
T.S.O.L.,
Stereo Dub,
Metal Thangz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camberwell Now,
Adolescents,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Remains,
Echospace,
Drexciya,
D'Angelo,
Kaleidoscope,
Lower 48,
Black Bananas,
a-ha,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Livin' Joy,
The Neon Judgement,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Rites of Spring,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Robert Hood,
Harry Pussy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Basic Channel,
Wolf Eyes,
Minnie Riperton,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Gun Club,
Quadrant,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Silicon Teens,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ultra Naté,
Lou Christie,
the Soft Cell,
The Skatalites,
Alton Ellis,
Hoover,
The Monochrome Set,
The Offenders,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.