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 Togo and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tears for Fears to the techno 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Stiv Bators,
Accadde A,
Flash Fearless,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Amon Düül,
Barry Ungar,
Drexciya,
Blake Baxter,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Von Mondo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Todd Rundgren,
Joey Negro,
Essential Logic,
Fluxion,
the Swans,
Fatback Band,
Juan Atkins,
Boredoms,
Organ,
Marvin Gaye,
The Durutti Column,
Moebius,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Groovy Waters,
The Associates,
Mary Jane Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ultravox,
Motorama,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Ice-T,
U.S. Maple,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nirvana,
Alison Limerick,
The Skatalites,
Spoonie Gee,
Susan Cadogan,
Sällskapet,
Glenn Branca,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
Thee Headcoats,
Charles Mingus,
Sugar Minott,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Max Romeo,
Rites of Spring,
Skarface,
Althea and Donna,
Marcia Griffiths,
Country Teasers,
Robert Görl,
Heaven 17,
Crispy Ambulance,
Yellowson,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.