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 Sudan and from Calgary.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Traffic Nightmare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Stooges,
Eric B and Rakim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Doors,
Harry Pussy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stetsasonic,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Sound,
X-101,
Brass Construction,
Technova,
Boogie Down Productions,
Faust,
ABBA,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Walker Brothers,
Ponytail,
Marvin Gaye,
Bad Manners,
Mark Hollis,
Peter and Kerry,
Grey Daturas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun City Girls,
Ohio Players,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The New Christs,
U.S. Maple,
The Fortunes,
The Sonics,
Q and Not U,
the Human League,
The Pretty Things,
The Count Five,
Country Teasers,
The Buckinghams,
Saccharine Trust,
Gong,
Girls At Our Best!,
Liliput,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lucky Dragons,
The Moleskins,
The Raincoats,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Goldenarms,
Crash Course in Science,
Max Romeo,
Vladislav Delay,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Josef K,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.