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 Latvia and from Columbus.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mandrill 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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?
Radio Birdman,
Intrusion,
The Divine Comedy,
Dual Sessions,
Chrome,
Soulsonic Force,
Sex Pistols,
Liliput,
Curtis Mayfield,
Au Pairs,
Eurythmics,
Vainqueur,
Joe Smooth,
the Swans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Susan Cadogan,
The Standells,
Kas Product,
MC5,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eric Dolphy,
Basic Channel,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Slits,
Schoolly D,
Marine Girls,
Sarah Menescal,
L. Decosne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter & Gordon,
Darondo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
CMW,
Junior Murvin,
Sight & Sound,
the Bar-Kays,
Circle Jerks,
DJ Sneak,
Soul Sonic Force,
cv313,
Minnie Riperton,
The Skatalites,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arthur Verocai,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Buzzcocks,
OOIOO,
The American Breed,
The Invisible,
Bob Dylan,
Camberwell Now,
Skarface,
The Neon Judgement,
K-Klass,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.