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 Serbia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Theoretical Girls to the jazz 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Barracudas,
Amon Düül II,
Lebanon Hanover,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythm & Sound,
a-ha,
Bad Manners,
Stiv Bators,
Bootsy Collins,
Tears for Fears,
Flash Fearless,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television Personalities,
Maurizio,
Pere Ubu,
Minny Pops,
L. Decosne,
Hot Snakes,
Rites of Spring,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joe Finger,
Gregory Isaacs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Lynne,
kango's stein massive,
The Techniques,
Michelle Simonal,
The Pretty Things,
The Cowsills,
Supertramp,
Zero Boys,
Mantronix,
48th St. Collective,
Barbara Tucker,
Hashim,
Marshall Jefferson,
Make Up,
Monks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Brass Construction,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
X-101,
DNA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bob Dylan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Glenn Branca,
Al Stewart,
Nik Kershaw,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Gang Dance,
Stockholm Monsters,
Spoonie Gee,
Warsaw,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.