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 Germany and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Moby Grape 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
The Cure,
Freddie Wadling,
FM Einheit,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fat Boys,
Amon Düül II,
the Association,
Ultimate Spinach,
Funkadelic,
The Seeds,
The Motions,
Absolute Body Control,
The Wake,
T.S.O.L.,
Brand Nubian,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dark Day,
The Dave Clark Five,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
Radiohead,
Man Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
This Heat,
Mission of Burma,
Peter and Kerry,
Outsiders,
Avey Tare,
The Remains,
Camberwell Now,
Mad Mike,
The Red Krayola,
John Lydon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Donny Hathaway,
Kas Product,
Fela Kuti,
Quadrant,
Bobby Womack,
Negative Approach,
Visage,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Glenn Branca,
Peter & Gordon,
The United States of America,
Throbbing Gristle,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Icehouse,
Ossler,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Foxx,
Flash Fearless,
Slave,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wally Richardson,
Al Stewart,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neil Young,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.