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 Tajikistan and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Aural Exciters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Silicon Teens,
Country Teasers,
The Smiths,
The Gap Band,
Visage,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lindisfarne,
Sparks,
The Sonics,
Gong,
Section 25,
Brick,
Marmalade,
The Seeds,
Reagan Youth,
Agent Orange,
Roxette,
Joe Finger,
PIL,
AZ,
Oblivians,
The Birthday Party,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aural Exciters,
Parry Music,
Basic Channel,
These Immortal Souls,
The Barracudas,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eli Mardock,
Erykah Badu,
Magazine,
Soulsonic Force,
Susan Cadogan,
Main Source,
Chris & Cosey,
Lungfish,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mad Mike,
Unwound,
David McCallum,
Franke,
Roger Hodgson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
MC5,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Bourne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gichy Dan,
Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Kool Moe Dee,
Carl Craig,
Drive Like Jehu,
Slave,
The Dirtbombs,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.