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 Israel and from Portland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
Janne Schatter,
Sound Behaviour,
Derrick Morgan,
The Golliwogs,
The Searchers,
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
Yazoo,
Kayak,
The Dead C,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Niagra,
Bill Near,
Jacob Miller,
David Axelrod,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Hot Snakes,
Robert Wyatt,
OOIOO,
Tears for Fears,
The Velvet Underground,
Massinfluence,
Sun City Girls,
Swell Maps,
Alton Ellis,
Make Up,
The Seeds,
Suburban Knight,
Slave,
The Knickerbockers,
Television,
Quadrant,
Joe Finger,
Roxette,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Index,
Q65,
The Residents,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Electric Prunes,
Icehouse,
Neu!,
Sugar Minott,
Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
B.T. Express,
Masters at Work,
Rakim,
Sarah Menescal,
Vainqueur,
Lightning Bolt,
The Saints,
The Shadows of Knight,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.