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 Africa and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gerry Rafferty to the electroclash 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Cameo,
Derrick May,
Shoche,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Steve Hackett,
Kerri Chandler,
Moebius,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Skatalites,
Funkadelic,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Throbbing Gristle,
David Axelrod,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Subhumans,
Porter Ricks,
kango's stein massive,
Minny Pops,
Byron Stingily,
Stereo Dub,
The Martian,
Eli Mardock,
Wings,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grey Daturas,
World's Most,
Ituana,
Connie Case,
Roxette,
Cecil Taylor,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
JFA,
Eve St. Jones,
Unrelated Segments,
Nation of Ulysses,
La Düsseldorf,
Jawbox,
The Mojo Men,
Absolute Body Control,
Blake Baxter,
China Crisis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roy Ayers,
Tubeway Army,
Barbara Tucker,
Max Romeo,
Smog,
Vainqueur,
Ice-T,
Ultra Naté,
Alison Limerick,
Nico,
The Standells,
John Foxx,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.