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 Bolivia and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Robert Palmer 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 Ronan to the techno 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Girls At Our Best!,
Index,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
Aaron Thompson,
Arab on Radar,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
Harpers Bizarre,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lightning Bolt,
Massinfluence,
Lucky Dragons,
Agent Orange,
Susan Cadogan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kerri Chandler,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sällskapet,
Quando Quango,
Idris Muhammad,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Simply Red,
Skriet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minor Threat,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Birthday Party,
Rites of Spring,
Quantec,
ABC,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Copeland,
Popol Vuh,
The Motions,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kurtis Blow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Essential Logic,
cv313,
Sugar Minott,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-Ray Spex,
Alton Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ice-T,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stereo Dub,
Neu!,
World's Most,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stetsasonic,
Bronski Beat,
Mo-Dettes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.