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 Seychelles and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 sitar 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 Black Moon to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Joe Smooth,
Leonard Cohen,
the Normal,
This Heat,
Goldenarms,
Bizarre Inc.,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ten City,
Make Up,
Blancmange,
Depeche Mode,
The Durutti Column,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Harpers Bizarre,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dual Sessions,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Seeds,
The Move,
Stetsasonic,
MC5,
Boredoms,
Aaron Thompson,
Aswad,
Cameo,
Outsiders,
Marmalade,
Angry Samoans,
Simply Red,
The Slits,
Eve St. Jones,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
E-Dancer,
Roxy Music,
Fat Boys,
Sarah Menescal,
Urselle,
The Gap Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
Magma,
Surgeon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sonny Sharrock,
Freddie Wadling,
Black Flag,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Boz Scaggs,
X-102,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fugazi,
Lou Christie,
Sam Rivers,
Charles Mingus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
L. Decosne,
kango's stein massive,
Silicon Teens,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Terry,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.