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 Korea North 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
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 güiro 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 Ken Boothe to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Clear Light,
X-102,
Qualms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lakeside,
Unwound,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Residents,
Arthur Verocai,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gang of Four,
Neil Young,
Angry Samoans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dawn Penn,
Susan Cadogan,
Groovy Waters,
Roxette,
New York Dolls,
the Swans,
D'Angelo,
The Techniques,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Swans,
Thee Headcoats,
Make Up,
Chrome,
The Young Rascals,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marmalade,
Deadbeat,
Dual Sessions,
The Black Dice,
Faust,
The Count Five,
Sonny Sharrock,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Desert Stars,
Scrapy,
Iggy Pop,
JFA,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
E-Dancer,
a-ha,
Peter and Kerry,
Tears for Fears,
Parry Music,
Brass Construction,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Pretty Things,
Pussy Galore,
Boz Scaggs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cowsills,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronan,
Sound Behaviour,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.