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 Norway and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar 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 DJ Sneak to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes 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 chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Deepchord,
John Foxx,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sun City Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arthur Verocai,
Lakeside,
Mission of Burma,
Bush Tetras,
Archie Shepp,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Unwound,
Idris Muhammad,
T. Rex,
The Flesh Eaters,
Judy Mowatt,
Eurythmics,
Bill Wells,
The Gap Band,
X-102,
Quadrant,
Tomorrow,
The Smiths,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
MC5,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Don Cherry,
The Birthday Party,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sam Rivers,
Shoche,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angry Samoans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tears for Fears,
Yaz,
Q and Not U,
Pagans,
Can,
Lou Christie,
Joy Division,
China Crisis,
Goldenarms,
Kas Product,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Normal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Television,
Ohio Players,
Thee Headcoats,
The Move,
Curtis Mayfield,
Babytalk,
The Monks,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.