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 Kuwait and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt 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?
Scrapy,
KRS-One,
Crime,
In Retrospect,
Monolake,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cymande,
Skaos,
Moss Icon,
Sonic Youth,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
Symarip,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra,
The Barracudas,
Idris Muhammad,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fortunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pierre Henry,
DNA,
Robert Wyatt,
Reuben Wilson,
Average White Band,
David Axelrod,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Busters,
The Smoke,
Reagan Youth,
the Slits,
EPMD,
The Human League,
Supertramp,
Royal Trux,
OOIOO,
The Gories,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sexual Harrassment,
X-102,
Slave,
Wolf Eyes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Pop Group,
Radio Birdman,
The Gap Band,
Massinfluence,
Los Fastidios,
Little Man,
Saccharine Trust,
Q and Not U,
Parry Music,
Khruangbin,
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bang On A Can,
Aaron Thompson,
Index,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.