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 Indonesia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Nik Kershaw,
June of 44,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Grass Roots,
La Düsseldorf,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Starr,
Loose Ends,
Pierre Henry,
This Heat,
48th St. Collective,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter & Gordon,
Eli Mardock,
The Moody Blues,
Roxette,
Mr. Review,
Country Teasers,
The Angels of Light,
Rod Modell,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
Groovy Waters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley,
Flash Fearless,
Joy Division,
Youth Brigade,
Japan,
Byron Stingily,
Sixth Finger,
K-Klass,
Jacob Miller,
Fear,
Al Stewart,
Inner City,
The Monks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Visage,
Franke,
Ornette Coleman,
The Blues Magoos,
Procol Harum,
Chris Corsano,
Yellowson,
Albert Ayler,
The Modern Lovers,
The Human League,
Carl Craig,
Kool Moe Dee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
Stiv Bators,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker,
Bronski Beat,
Fela Kuti,
The Count Five,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.