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 Albania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sight & Sound to the jazz 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultravox,
The Mojo Men,
Little Man,
Aloha Tigers,
Half Japanese,
Babytalk,
Sister Nancy,
Pagans,
Bobby Sherman,
Zapp,
Lyres,
X-102,
Neil Young,
FM Einheit,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Walker Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sandy B,
Eden Ahbez,
Electric Prunes,
Alton Ellis,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Niagra,
The Skatalites,
Ossler,
Soul II Soul,
The Black Dice,
Joyce Sims,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Black Bananas,
Mo-Dettes,
Adolescents,
Erykah Badu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ludus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skaos,
David McCallum,
48th St. Collective,
Shoche,
The Mummies,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Graham Central Station,
Joy Division,
Johnny Osbourne,
Siglo XX,
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Bourne,
Infiniti,
Bauhaus,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fad Gadget,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.