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 Bahrain and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Matthew Halsall to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Scratch Acid,
Half Japanese,
Urselle,
Television Personalities,
Anakelly,
Eden Ahbez,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lungfish,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Byrd,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
E-Dancer,
Bauhaus,
Neu!,
John Holt,
Marc Almond,
Cheater Slicks,
Swell Maps,
Pierre Henry,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Josef K,
The Fall,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Blossom Toes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Skriet,
New Age Steppers,
The Trojans,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Sherman,
Steve Hackett,
Ronan,
The Human League,
Angry Samoans,
Infiniti,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Depeche Mode,
Eric Dolphy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
DNA,
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Amon Düül II,
Excepter,
DJ Sneak,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eddi Front,
Absolute Body Control,
Monolake,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cramps,
World's Most,
Roger Hodgson,
Lyres,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scion,
Terry Callier,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.