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 Sri Lanka and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the jazz 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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marmalade,
OOIOO,
Black Pus,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mandrill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David Axelrod,
John Foxx,
The Knickerbockers,
Delta 5,
Hasil Adkins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Erasure,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lower 48,
Essential Logic,
Tomorrow,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cure,
Silicon Teens,
Pantytec,
Duran Duran,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moleskins,
Arcadia,
Suicide,
Cybotron,
Nils Olav,
the Normal,
Marine Girls,
Agent Orange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wally Richardson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Television,
Little Man,
Cabaret Voltaire,
EPMD,
The Residents,
Lungfish,
Tubeway Army,
The Modern Lovers,
Scan 7,
Television Personalities,
the Soft Cell,
Josef K,
Sugar Minott,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Toasters,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Saints,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Funky Four + One,
Barclay James Harvest,
Groovy Waters,
The Techniques,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.