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 Azerbaijan and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Bluetip to the dance 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Fall,
Kaleidoscope,
Rites of Spring,
Danielle Patucci,
PIL,
Rapeman,
Dual Sessions,
Bronski Beat,
Delta 5,
Wasted Youth,
Hashim,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young,
The Pop Group,
Fugazi,
Das Ding,
Skriet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Faraquet,
Moby Grape,
Albert Ayler,
48th St. Collective,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Thee Headcoats,
Ossler,
Prince Buster,
Heaven 17,
John Coltrane,
Basic Channel,
Eli Mardock,
Mantronix,
Lucky Dragons,
Pylon,
Sun City Girls,
The Music Machine,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Shoche,
the Swans,
Jandek,
Hot Snakes,
Nirvana,
Marine Girls,
The Moody Blues,
L. Decosne,
Bootsy Collins,
Don Cherry,
Boz Scaggs,
Bluetip,
Curtis Mayfield,
Steve Hackett,
Outsiders,
The Happenings,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Vogues,
The Slackers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.