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 Armenia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 Zapp to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mandrill,
La Düsseldorf,
Roxy Music,
David Bowie,
The Walker Brothers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Laurel Aitken,
Stereo Dub,
The Durutti Column,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Fugs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Y Pants,
The Young Rascals,
Sonic Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
U.S. Maple,
Michelle Simonal,
Yusef Lateef,
Second Layer,
Subhumans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
The Dead C,
Nick Fraelich,
Kaleidoscope,
Lucky Dragons,
Darondo,
EPMD,
Saccharine Trust,
Wally Richardson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Danielle Patucci,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlback,
Average White Band,
Pierre Henry,
Camberwell Now,
Skriet,
Jacob Miller,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joe Finger,
Marshall Jefferson,
Procol Harum,
The Tremeloes,
Supertramp,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Barracudas,
Groovy Waters,
The Cure,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Slick Rick,
Radiohead,
Patti Smith,
Khruangbin,
The Red Krayola,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sonics,
Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish.
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.