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 Vanuatu and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Lou Reed 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
D'Angelo,
Camberwell Now,
Barbara Tucker,
Quantec,
The Seeds,
Marine Girls,
June of 44,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
Ultra Naté,
James White and The Blacks,
Nils Olav,
The Count Five,
Loose Ends,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
Ossler,
Altered Images,
Minor Threat,
New York Dolls,
Yaz,
Amon Düül,
The Sonics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
JFA,
Jimmy McGriff,
Severed Heads,
The Slits,
The Stooges,
Lalann,
Adolescents,
Theoretical Girls,
Outsiders,
Eric Copeland,
Nas,
Janne Schatter,
Swans,
The Star Department,
Neu!,
Max Romeo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric B and Rakim,
Junior Murvin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Reuben Wilson,
Flash Fearless,
Dawn Penn,
The Monochrome Set,
Skaos,
Radiohead,
Crime,
Tom Boy,
Little Man,
Ituana,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warren Ellis,
Cymande,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Busters,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.