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 Australia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Skarface to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Zeros,
The Skatalites,
The Standells,
Jeff Lynne,
Wally Richardson,
ABBA,
The Happenings,
David Axelrod,
Erasure,
the Slits,
The Tremeloes,
Guru Guru,
Scratch Acid,
Y Pants,
Stereo Dub,
OOIOO,
X-101,
Bauhaus,
Accadde A,
Charles Mingus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dead Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sixth Finger,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brass Construction,
Outsiders,
Derrick May,
Dual Sessions,
The Count Five,
Black Sheep,
Grauzone,
The Selecter,
The Motions,
Gang Starr,
Colin Newman,
Bluetip,
Gil Scott Heron,
Robert Görl,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Evens,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hoover,
Buzzcocks,
Joe Smooth,
World's Most,
Newcleus,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Gang Dance,
Franke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
10cc,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.