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 Japan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Glasgow 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 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 Little Man to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly 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?
Prince Buster,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joensuu 1685,
Jeff Lynne,
Sparks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Young Marble Giants,
Slave,
The Cure,
John Foxx,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pole,
Echospace,
The Smiths,
Marc Almond,
Flipper,
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
Agitation Free,
Max Romeo,
Minutemen,
Make Up,
Donny Hathaway,
The Dave Clark Five,
Morten Harket,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Moleskins,
Ponytail,
Sun Ra,
Electric Prunes,
Michelle Simonal,
The Evens,
Outsiders,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Christie,
Excepter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Pretty Things,
Bobby Sherman,
Quantec,
Infiniti,
Supertramp,
Tres Demented,
OOIOO,
Sun City Girls,
Lungfish,
Underground Resistance,
Janne Schatter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Audionom,
Bill Wells,
MDC,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kurtis Blow,
Oneida,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Susan Cadogan,
Mission of Burma,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.