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 Paraguay and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hoover to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sam Rivers,
Dennis Brown,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bauhaus,
Howard Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hot Snakes,
The New Christs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hoover,
Iggy Pop,
Yaz,
Bush Tetras,
The Gun Club,
Ultimate Spinach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Con Funk Shun,
The Gap Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Carl Craig,
Lightning Bolt,
Minny Pops,
The Busters,
the Association,
The Leaves,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Goldenarms,
Qualms,
New Age Steppers,
Barry Ungar,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mars,
Tomorrow,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Maurizio,
Black Flag,
Inner City,
MC5,
Alison Limerick,
Suicide,
Quando Quango,
Stiv Bators,
Soulsonic Force,
Jeff Mills,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Amon Düül,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neil Young,
the Sonics,
Rhythm & Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Unwound,
Marc Almond,
Liliput,
The Fire Engines,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.