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 Eritrea and from New York.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Intrusion to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Gang Green,
Excepter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Charles Mingus,
The United States of America,
The Fire Engines,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo,
The Gap Band,
Pere Ubu,
The Fugs,
EPMD,
Minnie Riperton,
The American Breed,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
June of 44,
Amon Düül,
Ossler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Selecter,
Glenn Branca,
The Motions,
K-Klass,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Smiths,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scientists,
Reagan Youth,
Sister Nancy,
Eden Ahbez,
New York Dolls,
Moebius,
The New Christs,
Stetsasonic,
R.M.O.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harmonia,
The Angels of Light,
Fluxion,
The Doors,
Michelle Simonal,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Cowsills,
Inner City,
Hasil Adkins,
Chrome,
Theoretical Girls,
Q and Not U,
The Young Rascals,
Joy Division,
Pierre Henry,
Brass Construction,
Archie Shepp,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Index,
Moss Icon,
The Happenings,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eurythmics,
Groovy Waters,
Crooked Eye,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.