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 Poland and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Sao Paulo.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Standells to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boredoms,
Moss Icon,
Pantaleimon,
Blake Baxter,
Joyce Sims,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ronan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grauzone,
Babytalk,
Rekid,
Camouflage,
Marcia Griffiths,
Junior Murvin,
The Fall,
Yellowson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quando Quango,
Fad Gadget,
Deepchord,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gun Club,
Arthur Verocai,
Todd Terry,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Skatalites,
Oneida,
Clear Light,
Maleditus Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Public Enemy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Black Pus,
Eurythmics,
Dawn Penn,
Dark Day,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
Colin Newman,
Hardrive,
Kenny Larkin,
The Monochrome Set,
Bobby Sherman,
Icehouse,
Gang of Four,
Das Ding,
Toni Rubio,
Whodini,
Yaz,
Second Layer,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Heaven 17,
OOIOO,
Skaos,
the Human League,
The Gories,
Symarip,
Bill Wells,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.