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 Canada and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hoover to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Graham Central Station,
Parry Music,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dual Sessions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aloha Tigers,
Royal Trux,
Swell Maps,
Crime,
Sam Rivers,
Funkadelic,
The Neon Judgement,
Chris & Cosey,
the Swans,
Wolf Eyes,
Jacques Brel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drexciya,
The American Breed,
Absolute Body Control,
Quantec,
Negative Approach,
Nik Kershaw,
Cybotron,
The Sonics,
The Kinks,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Fraelich,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Wake,
Piero Umiliani,
Main Source,
OOIOO,
Peter and Kerry,
The Mummies,
Alison Limerick,
the Soft Cell,
These Immortal Souls,
The Motions,
Scion,
Cheater Slicks,
Harry Pussy,
Theoretical Girls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Aswad,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wire,
The Happenings,
The Five Americans,
kango's stein massive,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gang Starr,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.