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 Libya and from Seoul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Adolescents to the grunge 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes 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 snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terry Callier,
The Mummies,
The Kinks,
H. Thieme,
James White and The Blacks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Alarm Clocks,
Matthew Bourne,
Charles Mingus,
New Order,
Agitation Free,
Curtis Mayfield,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Hutcherson,
June of 44,
The Fuzztones,
Man Eating Sloth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Grey Daturas,
Shoche,
Qualms,
Rapeman,
Lightning Bolt,
Procol Harum,
Spandau Ballet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Slave,
Trumans Water,
Tears for Fears,
Ten City,
Kerri Chandler,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
Tommy Roe,
Alison Limerick,
Brick,
Index,
Darondo,
Audionom,
Whodini,
Duran Duran,
Wally Richardson,
Cybotron,
Janne Schatter,
Soul II Soul,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gabor Szabo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Sonics,
Black Pus,
Tomorrow,
Vladislav Delay,
Gang of Four,
Howard Jones,
Rotary Connection,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.