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 Nicaragua 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the guitar 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 Nils Olav to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Mandrill,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Magma,
Stiv Bators,
Urselle,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
Unwound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dave Gahan,
X-101,
Fad Gadget,
The Moody Blues,
Easy Going,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scan 7,
Soul II Soul,
Theoretical Girls,
Roxette,
Trumans Water,
Robert Wyatt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cameo,
Roxy Music,
Rod Modell,
Sex Pistols,
The Smoke,
The Birthday Party,
Smog,
Sound Behaviour,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Victims,
Pylon,
Brass Construction,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hoover,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Quadrant,
Jacques Brel,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Amon Düül II,
Alison Limerick,
Tubeway Army,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
F. McDonald,
Reuben Wilson,
Youth Brigade,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gang Green,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lungfish,
Roy Ayers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Susan Cadogan,
John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.