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 Singapore and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Warren Ellis,
Fugazi,
Moebius,
Monks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gories,
The Count Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Michelle Simonal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boz Scaggs,
Silicon Teens,
cv313,
Circle Jerks,
Zapp,
FM Einheit,
Fela Kuti,
Dual Sessions,
Anakelly,
Suburban Knight,
Graham Central Station,
Joey Negro,
Stiv Bators,
Wings,
The Divine Comedy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rites of Spring,
Fat Boys,
Bobby Byrd,
Yazoo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Y Pants,
Alison Limerick,
Warsaw,
Terry Callier,
The Martian,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
Black Sheep,
Maurizio,
Sandy B,
Funky Four + One,
Grey Daturas,
Thee Headcoats,
The Pop Group,
Tom Boy,
The Mojo Men,
Godley & Creme,
The Red Krayola,
The Buckinghams,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonic Youth,
Quantec,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.