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 Comoros and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Evens to the crunk 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Interpol,
Crooked Eye,
Ultravox,
The Human League,
Monolake,
Bill Wells,
Rotary Connection,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
These Immortal Souls,
James Chance & The Contortions,
MC5,
Yaz,
Ten City,
Kaleidoscope,
Dark Day,
One Last Wish,
The Alarm Clocks,
Schoolly D,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Raincoats,
the Bar-Kays,
Adolescents,
Das Ding,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker,
Mantronix,
A Certain Ratio,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alton Ellis,
The Index,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Detroit Cobras,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Simply Red,
The Barracudas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ultra Naté,
Tim Buckley,
Robert Görl,
Youth Brigade,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Pop Group,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Technova,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cheater Slicks,
The J.B.'s,
Visage,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Isaac Hayes,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eric Dolphy,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.