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 Chile and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
10cc,
Silicon Teens,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Residents,
OOIOO,
Peter & Gordon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Skriet,
Henry Cow,
Organ,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ronan,
Toni Rubio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ohio Players,
Jacques Brel,
Basic Channel,
The Smoke,
Darondo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harmonia,
Flash Fearless,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
Outsiders,
Todd Terry,
Lou Christie,
Heaven 17,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Intrusion,
Nas,
The Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Susan Cadogan,
The Names,
Boz Scaggs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jawbox,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Maleditus Sound,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Gap Band,
Howard Jones,
The Gories,
Accadde A,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
James White and The Blacks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hoover,
Sixth Finger,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.