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 Uganda and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 OOIOO to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gichy Dan,
48th St. Collective,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swans,
Piero Umiliani,
Sex Pistols,
Radio Birdman,
The Black Dice,
Brothers Johnson,
Franke,
The Associates,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Searchers,
Zapp,
Harry Pussy,
Bronski Beat,
FM Einheit,
the Normal,
The Selecter,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tim Buckley,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fad Gadget,
Terry Callier,
Ten City,
The Fall,
Index,
Malaria!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Spoonie Gee,
Popol Vuh,
Archie Shepp,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yaz,
Sarah Menescal,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cowsills,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Altered Images,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerri Chandler,
ABC,
The Trojans,
Lalann,
Junior Murvin,
Adolescents,
T. Rex,
Unwound,
Camberwell Now,
Black Flag,
Moss Icon,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Alarm Clocks,
Theoretical Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deakin,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minor Threat,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.