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 South Sudan and from Tehran.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Camberwell Now,
Scott Walker,
Derrick Morgan,
Saccharine Trust,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Alarm Clocks,
Franke,
The Monochrome Set,
Underground Resistance,
World's Most,
Lee Hazlewood,
Michelle Simonal,
The Toasters,
Scrapy,
MC5,
Peter & Gordon,
Infiniti,
Gregory Isaacs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nico,
a-ha,
Todd Terry,
L. Decosne,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pussy Galore,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alton Ellis,
The Blackbyrds,
Connie Case,
Stiv Bators,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dave Clark Five,
Delta 5,
Eli Mardock,
Black Moon,
Funkadelic,
New Age Steppers,
Lindisfarne,
Jacob Miller,
Tears for Fears,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Anthony Braxton,
Chrome,
The Remains,
Sonic Youth,
Fela Kuti,
Joey Negro,
The Gun Club,
Mr. Review,
Quadrant,
Joensuu 1685,
DJ Style,
Gong,
Eddi Front,
A Flock of Seagulls,
New Order,
Steve Hackett,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.