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 Uruguay and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Flipper to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suicide record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aswad,
Skaos,
The Walker Brothers,
Second Layer,
Quantec,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Wyatt,
Blossom Toes,
The Misunderstood,
Boz Scaggs,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Porter Ricks,
Q and Not U,
FM Einheit,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brand Nubian,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jerry's Kids,
Sly & The Family Stone,
LL Cool J,
Tears for Fears,
the Normal,
Bauhaus,
Lucky Dragons,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gap Band,
Gang of Four,
EPMD,
The Sonics,
Maurizio,
The Fugs,
The Pretty Things,
Heaven 17,
a-ha,
Donny Hathaway,
Fatback Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bang On A Can,
The Monks,
Mr. Review,
Sister Nancy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rosa Yemen,
David Bowie,
the Swans,
Flipper,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Warren Ellis,
The Fire Engines,
Blake Baxter,
Wings,
Drexciya,
Peter and Kerry,
Joyce Sims,
The Slackers,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.