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 Greece and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Nas to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Masters at Work,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Knickerbockers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gap Band,
Althea and Donna,
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Finger,
The Martian,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brass Construction,
Lightning Bolt,
Can,
Janne Schatter,
The Offenders,
Ultra Naté,
Tommy Roe,
Monolake,
Little Man,
Rod Modell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alton Ellis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joe Smooth,
The Stooges,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Index,
Lakeside,
Half Japanese,
OOIOO,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Scott Walker,
Ultravox,
The Beau Brummels,
Pylon,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Harmonia,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aaron Thompson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Von Mondo,
Warren Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
Black Bananas,
Fugazi,
June Days,
The Slits,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gories,
Newcleus,
The J.B.'s,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mantronix,
Crispian St. Peters,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.