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 Tunisia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 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 Banda Bassotti to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
The Residents,
The Doors,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Interpol,
Thompson Twins,
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker,
The Offenders,
Hardrive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABBA,
Von Mondo,
Television Personalities,
The Sonics,
The Human League,
Rosa Yemen,
Crime,
F. McDonald,
Sexual Harrassment,
Masters at Work,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sixth Finger,
Los Fastidios,
Minnie Riperton,
Ronan,
DNA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nick Fraelich,
X-101,
Jesper Dahlback,
Howard Jones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smoke,
Soul II Soul,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
Eurythmics,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül II,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Saccharine Trust,
Second Layer,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
kango's stein massive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Underground Resistance,
The Motions,
Black Flag,
Andrew Hill,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pagans,
Monks,
Infiniti,
Boredoms,
Gang Green,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.