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 Finland and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Scrapy to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
The Smiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Judy Mowatt,
Rosa Yemen,
The Busters,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joe Smooth,
Marine Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Stiv Bators,
Tommy Roe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barry Ungar,
The Walker Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jesper Dahlback,
Don Cherry,
DNA,
Buzzcocks,
ABC,
Icehouse,
Deakin,
Todd Rundgren,
Dawn Penn,
New York Dolls,
Danielle Patucci,
Blake Baxter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Infiniti,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dead Boys,
Alphaville,
Scientists,
Minnie Riperton,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Isaac Hayes,
Alison Limerick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oneida,
The Invisible,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oblivians,
Flipper,
Tim Buckley,
Television,
Moss Icon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Faust,
The Monochrome Set,
Chris Corsano,
Man Parrish,
MC5,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.