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 Zimbabwe and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 This Heat to the jazz 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fall,
Lalann,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cal Tjader,
The Walker Brothers,
Donny Hathaway,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stereo Dub,
Nils Olav,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Swans,
The Smoke,
China Crisis,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonic Youth,
Oblivians,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sam Rivers,
Wasted Youth,
Gang Gang Dance,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mad Mike,
The Cowsills,
Bluetip,
Roxy Music,
Popol Vuh,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Can,
The Divine Comedy,
Darondo,
Quantec,
Television Personalities,
Swell Maps,
Anthony Braxton,
Ponytail,
The Tremeloes,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Offenders,
June of 44,
Nation of Ulysses,
Icehouse,
Jacques Brel,
Nik Kershaw,
Kaleidoscope,
Joe Smooth,
Zapp,
Lungfish,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crime,
Technova,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Audionom,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.