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 Tuvalu and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum 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 Howard Jones to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Little Man,
Kaleidoscope,
Derrick Morgan,
Leonard Cohen,
Circle Jerks,
the Association,
Moss Icon,
The Real Kids,
The Saints,
Todd Terry,
Quando Quango,
LL Cool J,
The Invisible,
Laurel Aitken,
CMW,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
Lakeside,
The Offenders,
John Holt,
Main Source,
The Cure,
The Gladiators,
The Leaves,
Skaos,
Alton Ellis,
Jacques Brel,
Soft Machine,
The Red Krayola,
Minor Threat,
Max Romeo,
Scan 7,
Franke,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ronnie Foster,
Iggy Pop,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alphaville,
Thee Headcoats,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sparks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
Swans,
DJ Style,
Television,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
Boz Scaggs,
Blossom Toes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Massinfluence,
Agitation Free,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crash Course in Science,
The Pretty Things,
the Swans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys.
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.