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 Namibia and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Joe Finger to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Essential Logic,
Supertramp,
MDC,
Faust,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Los Fastidios,
Easy Going,
Soulsonic Force,
Eurythmics,
Anakelly,
Lightning Bolt,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Sheep,
Mad Mike,
The Standells,
Gichy Dan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
A Certain Ratio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tommy Roe,
Nation of Ulysses,
Q and Not U,
48th St. Collective,
Steve Hackett,
T.S.O.L.,
Max Romeo,
Terry Callier,
Subhumans,
Joe Smooth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sound Behaviour,
Hasil Adkins,
Make Up,
Organ,
B.T. Express,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Youth Brigade,
Lou Reed,
X-Ray Spex,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dave Gahan,
The Golliwogs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Tubeway Army,
Ronan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oblivians,
The Pop Group,
Surgeon,
Robert Hood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lalann,
The Moody Blues,
Hot Snakes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stetsasonic,
Shuggie Otis,
Amazonics,
Pantytec,
Mission of Burma,
Ultimate Spinach,
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.