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 India and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Connie Case to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
CMW,
The Black Dice,
Rufus Thomas,
Black Sheep,
Moss Icon,
Bang On A Can,
Marmalade,
Sällskapet,
Eurythmics,
The Buckinghams,
Malaria!,
Wire,
Severed Heads,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Searchers,
Schoolly D,
R.M.O.,
Toni Rubio,
Todd Rundgren,
Unrelated Segments,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Underground Resistance,
the Soft Cell,
Brass Construction,
Negative Approach,
Harry Pussy,
Lakeside,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Henry Cow,
Al Stewart,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
the Swans,
The Human League,
China Crisis,
Sam Rivers,
Rosa Yemen,
New Age Steppers,
Josef K,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Motions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Average White Band,
LL Cool J,
Scan 7,
Electric Prunes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Inner City,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Ornette Coleman,
Blancmange,
Barclay James Harvest,
Throbbing Gristle,
DJ Style,
Clear Light,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.