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 Venezuela and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Jerry's Kids to the funk 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Animal Collective,
The Velvet Underground,
Average White Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nico,
Organ,
Unwound,
Lou Christie,
Dawn Penn,
Cheater Slicks,
DJ Sneak,
Scientists,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ludus,
New Order,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roger Hodgson,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Moleskins,
CMW,
X-Ray Spex,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Music Machine,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pantytec,
Joyce Sims,
Con Funk Shun,
Zapp,
E-Dancer,
The Saints,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
John Cale,
The Offenders,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Martian,
Judy Mowatt,
The Barracudas,
Sound Behaviour,
Chris Corsano,
Accadde A,
Ohio Players,
K-Klass,
Crispy Ambulance,
Section 25,
The Dead C,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Agent Orange,
Swell Maps,
Scott Walker,
Byron Stingily,
Khruangbin,
Boz Scaggs,
Tim Buckley,
Donny Hathaway,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Los Fastidios,
Warren Ellis,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.