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 Peru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 Soulsonic Force to the electroclash 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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Bang On A Can,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Average White Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Underground Resistance,
Byron Stingily,
Yazoo,
Siglo XX,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Funkadelic,
Isaac Hayes,
Skaos,
Barry Ungar,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young,
Morten Harket,
Electric Prunes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Shuggie Otis,
Johnny Clarke,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DJ Style,
Jacob Miller,
the Swans,
The Walker Brothers,
Monolake,
Desert Stars,
Lower 48,
Marine Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Spandau Ballet,
Metal Thangz,
Slick Rick,
These Immortal Souls,
Little Man,
Public Enemy,
The Gladiators,
The Young Rascals,
Infiniti,
Swans,
Vainqueur,
Lou Reed,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash,
Section 25,
The Slits,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Man Parrish,
Warsaw,
Babytalk,
Amazonics,
Panda Bear,
Organ,
Buzzcocks,
Flash Fearless,
Unwound,
Wings,
Todd Rundgren,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.