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 Denmark 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the electroclash 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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
F. McDonald,
Amon Düül,
Massinfluence,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Faraquet,
Scion,
The Remains,
Erasure,
Idris Muhammad,
Brass Construction,
Minutemen,
Althea and Donna,
Janne Schatter,
Morten Harket,
Howard Jones,
The Electric Prunes,
Davy DMX,
Ultravox,
Ultra Naté,
Cal Tjader,
KRS-One,
Bizarre Inc.,
Silicon Teens,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker,
Royal Trux,
Funky Four + One,
The Blackbyrds,
Spoonie Gee,
Technova,
Groovy Waters,
Carl Craig,
The Happenings,
Danielle Patucci,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marine Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Smog,
Model 500,
DJ Style,
The Stooges,
The Saints,
Johnny Osbourne,
Con Funk Shun,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Terry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crash Course in Science,
The Smiths,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-Ray Spex,
Crooked Eye,
Junior Murvin,
The Toasters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bad Manners,
Simply Red,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.