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 Egypt and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Sixth Finger to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
The Red Krayola,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aswad,
Stiv Bators,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Royal Trux,
Stereo Dub,
EPMD,
Interpol,
The J.B.'s,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The United States of America,
H. Thieme,
Jerry's Kids,
Robert Hood,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Groovy Waters,
Harmonia,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Style,
Don Cherry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Clear Light,
Y Pants,
Bad Manners,
Sun City Girls,
Thee Headcoats,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Infiniti,
Adolescents,
Roger Hodgson,
The Associates,
Arcadia,
Malaria!,
Dennis Brown,
the Normal,
The Sound,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Names,
Alphaville,
AZ,
The Mummies,
B.T. Express,
Gang Starr,
Bobby Byrd,
Kurtis Blow,
Echospace,
Lalann,
John Holt,
The Blues Magoos,
Yellowson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Metal Thangz,
Oblivians,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.